Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais 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 Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Tokmak There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Tokmak
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Tokmak "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Tokmak
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Tokmak "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, 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 Unhappy Tokmak
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Tokmak blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Tokmak
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Tokmak "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Tokmak
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Tokmak "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Tokmak
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Tokmak Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Tokmak
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Tokmak The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Tokmak
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Tokmak It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Tokmak
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Tokmak There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Tokmak
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Tokmak "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Tokmak
