Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "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) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Cricket Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Cricket
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Cricket I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Cricket
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Cricket If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Cricket
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell 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 I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Cricket "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Cricket
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Cricket "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Cricket
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "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) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Cricket There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Cricket
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Cricket I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Cricket
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Cricket I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Cricket
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Cricket Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Spinster: A bachelor's wife. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Cricket
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 Cricket Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Cricket
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein 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 Cricket blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Cricket
