Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "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, Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Berkhamsted No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Berkhamsted
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Berkhamsted I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Berkhamsted
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball 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 Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Berkhamsted A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Berkhamsted
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Berkhamsted Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Berkhamsted
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Berkhamsted There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Berkhamsted
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Berkhamsted You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Berkhamsted
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) 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 Berkhamsted Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Berkhamsted
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Berkhamsted I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg 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 Berkhamsted
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Berkhamsted Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Berkhamsted
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Berkhamsted "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Berkhamsted
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Berkhamsted My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux 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 Berkhamsted
