"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley By County "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) By County
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey By County Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight By County
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) 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 "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman By County Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters By County
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger By County People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain By County
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward By County If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal By County
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin By County "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins By County
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett By County Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston By County
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson By County Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards By County
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) By County The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin By County
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 blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes By County The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy 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 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain By County
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. By County Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. By County
