Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Artists and Galleries I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Artists and Galleries
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Artists and Galleries "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Artists and Galleries
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Artists and Galleries I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Artists and Galleries
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Artists and Galleries "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Artists and Galleries
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Artists and Galleries "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Artists and Galleries
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Artists and Galleries Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Artists and Galleries
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Artists and Galleries Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Artists and Galleries
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 Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Artists and Galleries You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Artists and Galleries
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Artists and Galleries May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Artists and Galleries
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Artists and Galleries I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Artists and Galleries
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler 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 Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Artists and Galleries Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Artists and Galleries
