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blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Directories As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Directories
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Directories "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Directories
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Directories The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Directories
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Directories "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Directories
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict 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. He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Directories 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 Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Directories
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Directories "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Directories
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Directories I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Directories
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Directories You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Directories
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Directories Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Directories
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Directories Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Directories
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Directories By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Directories
