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There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) B The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) B
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) B Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa B
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw B I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst B
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud B The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf B
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell B I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac B
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) B "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner B
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard 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 I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde B "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle B
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words 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. Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken B Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea B
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort B I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) B
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X B As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) B
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 B "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel B
