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I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau 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 "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 Government With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Government
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Government
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Government "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Government
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Government If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Government
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Government To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Government
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Government Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Government
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Government I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Government
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Government Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Government
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Government "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Government
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Government
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Government "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Government
