Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Society and Culture "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Society and Culture
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Society and Culture You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Society and Culture
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Society and Culture Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Society and Culture When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "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 My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Society and Culture "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) 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 If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Society and Culture
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) 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 Society and Culture "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Society and Culture The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Society and Culture
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Society and Culture You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Society and Culture
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Society and Culture If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Society and Culture
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Society and Culture Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Society and Culture
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Society and Culture Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Society and Culture
