"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare T Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous T
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg T There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder T
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little T I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) T
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern T He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short T
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow T The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha T
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "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 T Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein T
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne T A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner T
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor T "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker T
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) T Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau T "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous T
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous T 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 bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 T
