"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Government "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Government
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim 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 "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Government More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Government
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Government The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Government
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Government 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 We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Government He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Government
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 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Government Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Government
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Government I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Government
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Government "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Government
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Government Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Government
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Government "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Government
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Government Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Government
