Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Wanlip The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Wanlip
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wanlip You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Wanlip
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Wanlip Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Wanlip
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "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) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Wanlip "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Wanlip
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Wanlip The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Wanlip
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Wanlip Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Wanlip
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Wanlip "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Wanlip
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Wanlip Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Wanlip
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Wanlip Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Wanlip
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Wanlip "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Wanlip
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Wanlip Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Wanlip
