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"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche News and Media Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard News and Media
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous News and Media The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) News and Media
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson News and Media I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain News and Media
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY News and Media "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "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) News and Media
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz News and Media 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 The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover News and Media
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins News and Media I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor News and Media Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata News and Media
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) News and Media An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one News and Media
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi News and Media Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) News and Media
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. News and Media What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor News and Media
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "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 News and Media A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. News and Media
