The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni 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 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Government If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Government
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Government "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Government
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Government It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Government
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Government I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Government
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Government Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Government
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Government Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Government
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song 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 When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard My other wife is beautiful. Government "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) 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 The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Government Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Government
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Government "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Government
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Government Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Government
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Government Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Government
