Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra News and Media If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) News and Media
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger News and Media "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) 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 The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill News and Media
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol News and Media
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story News and Media Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill News and Media
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. News and Media I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins News and Media
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. News and Media If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald News and Media
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what 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 Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery News and Media "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel News and Media
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns 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 News and Media Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around 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 News and Media
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman News and Media "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood News and Media
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) News and Media He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard News and Media
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. News and Media True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) News and Media
