In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton By Region A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele By Region
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 By Region No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill By Region
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) By Region "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash By Region
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley By Region There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) By Region
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde By Region "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) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley By Region
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. By Region "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin By Region
"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) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "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) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov By Region You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) By Region
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin By Region It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein By Region
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di By Region "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle By Region
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. By Region "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi By Region
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld By Region You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker By Region
