Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "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, ignorance, g "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Yelverton War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Yelverton
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Yelverton Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Yelverton
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Yelverton Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Yelverton
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Yelverton "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Yelverton
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board 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 "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Yelverton "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) What's new? Most of my wife. Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Yelverton
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 "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) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Yelverton Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Yelverton
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Yelverton Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Yelverton
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Yelverton Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Yelverton
"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) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "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) Yelverton The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Yelverton
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Yelverton I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Yelverton
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Yelverton "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Yelverton
