It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) By Location Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous By Location
"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) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling By Location "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde By Location
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac By Location 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 Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) By Location
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) By Location Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre By Location
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards By Location Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words By Location
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot By Location Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley By Location
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart 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 To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash By Location We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde By Location
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha By Location It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By Location
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith By Location The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) By Location
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius By Location I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 By Location
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By Location Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) By Location
