"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) By County 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger By County
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker By County Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates By County
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) By County If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde By County
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer By County The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha By County
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx 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 The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow By County It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 By County
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. By County I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire By County
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "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) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison By County Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) By County
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings By County Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton By County
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy By County Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin By County
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor By County A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld By County
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung By County In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken By County
