"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous 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 One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Government "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) 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 Government
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Government Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Government
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Government A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Government
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Government It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Government
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Government No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Government
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "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) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Government It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Government Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Government
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Government "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Government
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Government To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Government Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Government
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Government Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Government
