"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Localities "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Localities
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Localities "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Localities
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Localities Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Localities
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Localities Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Localities
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Localities It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Localities
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "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) Localities "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Localities
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Localities An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "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) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Localities None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Localities
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Localities Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Localities
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Localities In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Localities
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Localities Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Localities
