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 A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Government You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "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) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Government
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Government Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Government
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart 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 When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley 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 Government "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Government
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson 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 "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Government Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Government
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "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 big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Government
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Government If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Government
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Government "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Government
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Government Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Government
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Government the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter 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 He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Government
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Government People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Government
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Government "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Government
