"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Government The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Government
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Government Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Government
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Government In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Government
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Government I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "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) Government
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard 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 Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Government "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Government
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Government
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "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 Government The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Government
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) 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 Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Government 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 child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Government
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Government Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Government
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Government
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford 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 Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Government There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Government
