"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Complementary and Alternative An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Complementary and Alternative
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Complementary and Alternative You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Man and wife make one fool. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Complementary and Alternative
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Complementary and Alternative "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Complementary and Alternative
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Complementary and Alternative "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) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Complementary and Alternative
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Complementary and Alternative In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Complementary and Alternative
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Complementary and Alternative I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Complementary and Alternative
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Complementary and Alternative "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Complementary and Alternative
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Complementary and Alternative The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Complementary and Alternative
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Complementary and Alternative Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Complementary and Alternative
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Complementary and Alternative "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Complementary and Alternative
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Complementary and Alternative "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Complementary and Alternative
