"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken 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. "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Government "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Government
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Government "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Government
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson 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 Government Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Government
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Government All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Government
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Government I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Government
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Government "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Government
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Government "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Government
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Government My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Government
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Government Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government
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 "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Government the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Government
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Government "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Government
