Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Great Eccleston "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Great Eccleston
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen 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 May you never leave your marriage alive. Great Eccleston "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Great Eccleston
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Great Eccleston It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Great Eccleston
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Great Eccleston I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Great Eccleston
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Great Eccleston 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) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Great Eccleston
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Great Eccleston Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Great Eccleston
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Great Eccleston I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Great Eccleston
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Great Eccleston If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Great Eccleston
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Great Eccleston A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Great Eccleston
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Great Eccleston We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Great Eccleston
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Great Eccleston "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Great Eccleston
