The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Shifnal "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Shifnal
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Shifnal UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Shifnal
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Shifnal Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Shifnal
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Shifnal A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Shifnal
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Shifnal Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Shifnal
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Shifnal You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Shifnal
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Shifnal We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Shifnal
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Shifnal People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Shifnal
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Shifnal Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Shifnal
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Shifnal We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Shifnal
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Shifnal Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Shifnal
