Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Animal Welfare He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Animal Welfare
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "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 Animal Welfare "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Animal Welfare
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Animal Welfare Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Animal Welfare
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Animal Welfare Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Animal Welfare
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Animal Welfare Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Animal Welfare
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Animal Welfare The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) 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 Animal Welfare
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Animal Welfare Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Animal Welfare
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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 Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Animal Welfare I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Animal Welfare
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Animal Welfare "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Animal Welfare
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Animal Welfare I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Animal Welfare
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Animal Welfare To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Animal Welfare
