Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Fordham Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Fordham
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Fordham Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Fordham
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Fordham He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Fordham
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Fordham Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Fordham
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Fordham "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) 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 "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Fordham
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Fordham "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Fordham
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Fordham "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "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 believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Fordham
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "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) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Fordham Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Fordham
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Fordham We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Fordham
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Fordham Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Fordham
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Fordham The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Fordham
