Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin 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 It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Kovel I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Kovel
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Kovel "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Kovel
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Kovel There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Kovel
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Kovel "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 "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Kovel
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Kovel Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Kovel
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Kovel Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Kovel
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Kovel Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Kovel
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Kovel It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Kovel
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Kovel Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Kovel
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Kovel Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Kovel
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. 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) Kovel "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Kovel
