Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) 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 Government Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Government
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Government "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Government
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 "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Government He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Government
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Government Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Government
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Government It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Government
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Government The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Government
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Government What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi 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 Government
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Government 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 To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Government
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Government He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Government
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Government You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Government
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Government If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Government
