Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews By County No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce By County
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to By County There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright By County
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber By County "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde By County
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates 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 Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev By County It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. By County
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke By County A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H By County
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) By County Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett By County
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley By County It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous By County
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) 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 By County Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx By County
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel By County The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau By County
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good By County If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb By County
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland By County I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer By County
