Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Waltham "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) 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 Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Waltham
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Waltham The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Waltham
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Waltham We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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 Waltham
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Waltham Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen 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 Waltham
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Waltham There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Waltham
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Waltham Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Waltham
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Waltham We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Waltham
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Waltham Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "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 Waltham
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Waltham Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Waltham
"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 Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Waltham One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Waltham
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "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 Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Waltham It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Waltham
