How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Buddhism "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Buddhism
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Buddhism There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Buddhism
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Buddhism Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Buddhism
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Buddhism It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Buddhism
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Buddhism I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Buddhism
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Buddhism A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Buddhism
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Buddhism If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Buddhism
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Buddhism We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Buddhism
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Buddhism "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Buddhism
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Buddhism "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Buddhism
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Buddhism "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Buddhism
