Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) 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 Government "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 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Government
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Government "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Government
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Government It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Government
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Government "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Government
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Government If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Government
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Government I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar 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 Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Government When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Government
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Government Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Government
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Government "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Government
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Government Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "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) Government
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Government Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Government
