I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Cliffsend We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Cliffsend
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Cliffsend Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Cliffsend
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Cliffsend I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Cliffsend
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "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 "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Cliffsend Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Cliffsend
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Cliffsend Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Cliffsend
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Cliffsend In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Cliffsend
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Cliffsend Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cliffsend
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "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 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Cliffsend "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Cliffsend
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Cliffsend Anyway, 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,
ign If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Cliffsend
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Cliffsend Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Cliffsend
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower 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 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Cliffsend Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Cliffsend
