Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Government The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Government
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Government "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 "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Government Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Government
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Government Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Government We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Government
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Government "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "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) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Government
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck 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 Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Government The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "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) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Government
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Government The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Government
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Government "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) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Government
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Government Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Government
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "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) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Government What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Government
