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Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Maps and Views No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Maps and Views
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "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 "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Maps and Views In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Maps and Views
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Maps and Views A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Maps and Views
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Maps and Views "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Maps and Views
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Maps and Views May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Maps and Views
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Maps and Views "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Maps and Views
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Maps and Views A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Maps and Views
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Maps and Views Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Maps and Views
"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 You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Maps and Views "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Maps and Views
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Maps and Views "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Maps and Views
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Maps and Views A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Maps and Views
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