The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 Blackgang Chine then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Blackgang Chine
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Blackgang Chine They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Blackgang Chine
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Blackgang Chine "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Blackgang Chine
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blackgang Chine "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "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) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Blackgang Chine
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Blackgang Chine Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Blackgang Chine
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Blackgang Chine To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Blackgang Chine
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Blackgang Chine "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Blackgang Chine
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 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 Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Blackgang Chine It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Blackgang Chine
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Blackgang Chine Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Blackgang Chine
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Blackgang Chine "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Blackgang Chine
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Blackgang Chine You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Blackgang Chine
