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The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Government Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Government
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "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) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Government "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Government
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Government "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Government
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a rest period between romances. And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Government Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Government
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Government Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Government
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Government No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Government
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Government Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Government
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun 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" Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Government Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Government
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Government "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Government
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Government 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 Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Government
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Government If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Government
