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 Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Localities I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Localities
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Localities 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 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin 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 Localities
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur 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 The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Localities A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Localities
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "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 Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Localities It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Localities
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Localities No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Localities
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Localities The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Localities
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Localities For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Localities
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Localities 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 Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Localities
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais 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 "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Localities The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Localities
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Localities "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Localities Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Localities
