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>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Government Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Government
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Government This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Government
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Government "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Government
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Government
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Government "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Government
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Government Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Government
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Government Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Government
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Government "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Government
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Government If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Government
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Government Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Government
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Government We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Government
