blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Government I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, 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 Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Government
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Government The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Government
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Government True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Government A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Government "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Government
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Government "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Government
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Government Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Government
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Government Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Government
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Government
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Government We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Government
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Government True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Government
