The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Z "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Z
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Z May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Z
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber 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" A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) 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 Z "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Z
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Z The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr 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. Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Z
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Z For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Z
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl 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 Unha Z No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 >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 Z
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Z Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Z
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) 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 I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Z "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Z
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Z I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Z
"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) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Z It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Z
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Z The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Z
