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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers V Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama V
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "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) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde V Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen V
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd V "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki V
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) V Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) V
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) V The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. V
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) V It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little V
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings V When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe V
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty 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 Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) V 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 Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War V
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf V "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 Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher V
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller V Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 V
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "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) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) V I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman V
