"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Cantons "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through 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 Cantons
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Cantons You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar 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 Cantons
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Cantons "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Cantons
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Cantons He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Cantons
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 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 Cantons A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Cantons
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Cantons It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Cantons
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Cantons "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cantons
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Cantons We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Cantons
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Cantons There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Cantons
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Cantons Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Cantons
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "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, ignorance, g The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Cantons "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Cantons
