I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Agencies He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Agencies
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. 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 Agencies Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Agencies
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Agencies There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Agencies
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Agencies Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Agencies
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 The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Agencies If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Agencies
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 The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Agencies Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Agencies
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) 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 Agencies "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Agencies
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Agencies Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Agencies
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Agencies We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Agencies
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. 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 Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Agencies "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Agencies
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Agencies "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Agencies
