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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Secondhand Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Secondhand
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Secondhand Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Secondhand
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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Secondhand I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "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) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Secondhand
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Secondhand "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Secondhand
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Secondhand "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde 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 Secondhand
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Secondhand I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Secondhand
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Secondhand Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Secondhand
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Secondhand 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) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Secondhand
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Secondhand The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Secondhand
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Secondhand This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Secondhand
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 Secondhand There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Secondhand
