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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer May you never leave your marriage alive. Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Politics "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Politics I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Politics
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne 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 Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Politics "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Politics In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Politics
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Politics Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Politics
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Politics Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Politics
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Politics "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Politics
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Politics For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Politics
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Politics Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Politics
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "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) Politics
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Politics "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Politics
