The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon S The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President S
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic S "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) 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 want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards S
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t S The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown 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 Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. S
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) S Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes S
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) S When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer S
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I S Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p S
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde S The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot S
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) S We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth S
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) S I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a S
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland 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 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) S Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers S
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch S blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. S
