In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Schools The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Schools
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Schools A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Schools
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Schools "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Schools
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours What's new? Most of my wife. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Schools Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Schools
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Schools A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Schools
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Schools blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Schools
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Schools We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Schools
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Schools "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Schools
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Schools Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Schools
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Schools I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Schools
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Schools Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Schools
