All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Bolton Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bolton
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Bolton "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bolton
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Bolton There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Bolton
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Bolton It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Bolton
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "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) Bolton We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Bolton
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Bolton Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Bolton
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Bolton If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Bolton
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Bolton "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Bolton
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Bolton "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) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Bolton
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Bolton Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Bolton
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Bolton The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Bolton
