Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 Coins and Stamps May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Coins and Stamps
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein 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 There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Coins and Stamps "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Coins and Stamps
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Coins and Stamps "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Coins and Stamps
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Coins and Stamps Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Coins and Stamps
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Coins and Stamps "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Coins and Stamps
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Man and wife make one fool. Coins and Stamps 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 Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Coins and Stamps
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Coins and Stamps When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Coins and Stamps
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Coins and Stamps "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain 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 Coins and Stamps
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Coins and Stamps If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Coins and Stamps
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n 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 Coins and Stamps We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop 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 Coins and Stamps
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Coins and Stamps We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling 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.
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