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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Croft Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Croft
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Croft 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 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Croft
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Croft The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Croft
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Croft Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. 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 "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Croft
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Croft Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Croft
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th 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 If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Croft Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Croft
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Croft Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Croft
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Croft Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Croft
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage 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 Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Croft Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Croft
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Croft Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Croft
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Croft The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Croft
