If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Provinces "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Provinces
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller 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 The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Provinces "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Provinces
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Provinces The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Provinces
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Provinces "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Provinces
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Provinces What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Provinces
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Provinces "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Provinces
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Provinces Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Provinces
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Provinces You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Provinces
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Provinces People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Provinces
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Provinces The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Provinces
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Provinces Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Provinces
