Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 By Region The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President By Region
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell By Region Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity By Region
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins By Region Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason By Region
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa By Region "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock By Region
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler By Region The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson By Region
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) By Region Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright By Region
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt By Region I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger 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 a If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury By Region
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman My other wife is beautiful. Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard By Region "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton By Region
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) 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 "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) 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 By Region The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve By Region
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker By Region A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) By Region
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey By Region "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell By Region
