The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "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 They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Women Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Women
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Women This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Women
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Women As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Women
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Women There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Women
What's new? Most of my wife. The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) 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 Women "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Women
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Women "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner 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 Women
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Women If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Women
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Women The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Women
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Women LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Women
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Women blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Women
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Women Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Women
