We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Esh Winning Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Esh Winning
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Esh Winning He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Esh Winning
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Esh Winning The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Esh Winning
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "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) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Esh Winning The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Esh Winning
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten 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 "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Esh Winning You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Esh Winning
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Esh Winning Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Esh Winning
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Esh Winning The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Esh Winning
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Esh Winning You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Esh Winning
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Esh Winning Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Esh Winning
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Esh Winning 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 Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Esh Winning
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West 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 Esh Winning The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Esh Winning
