It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Shchors Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Shchors
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. If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Shchors Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses 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 Shchors
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Shchors Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Shchors
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Shchors The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Shchors
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 Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Shchors Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Shchors
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Shchors There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Shchors
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "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) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Shchors Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Shchors
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Shchors It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Shchors
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Shchors Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Shchors
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "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) Shchors Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Shchors
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. We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Shchors "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Shchors
