You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Bradworthy Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Bradworthy
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Bradworthy Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara 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 I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Bradworthy
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Bradworthy The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Bradworthy
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Bradworthy 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 Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Bradworthy
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Bradworthy A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Bradworthy
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bradworthy "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Bradworthy
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Bradworthy 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 "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Bradworthy
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Bradworthy "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) 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.
-- Winston Churchill Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Bradworthy
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- 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 Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Bradworthy "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Bradworthy
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Bradworthy I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Bradworthy
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Bradworthy Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Bradworthy
