Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Government 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 Unhappy "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Government
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Government There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Government
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Government The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Government
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Government "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) 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 I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Government
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Government There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Government
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Government Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words 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, "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 you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus 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 Government "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) 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 Government
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Government "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Government
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Government The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Government
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Government You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Government
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Government In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Government
