"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Genealogy Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Genealogy
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Genealogy Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge 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 Genealogy
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Genealogy Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Genealogy
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Genealogy The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Genealogy
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins 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.
Genealogy What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Genealogy
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Genealogy Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Genealogy
"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) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Genealogy If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Genealogy
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "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 "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 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 Genealogy It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Genealogy
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Genealogy Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Genealogy
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Genealogy May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. 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 Genealogy
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Genealogy Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Genealogy
