If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Government I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "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 Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Government
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Government Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Government
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Government Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Government
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "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) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Government "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed 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 Government
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Government Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Government The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Government
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) 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 The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Government A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Government
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Government It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Government
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Government For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Government
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Government Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Government
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Government When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Government
