"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) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fyfield Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Fyfield
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Fyfield With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Fyfield
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Fyfield The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Fyfield
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Fyfield The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Fyfield
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Fyfield "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Fyfield
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Fyfield I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Fyfield
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Fyfield The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Fyfield
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Fyfield There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Fyfield
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Fyfield your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Fyfield
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Fyfield A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "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 Fyfield
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Fyfield Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Fyfield
