The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) By County Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward By County
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan By County Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf By County
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford 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. 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 By County Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick By County
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune By County "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By County
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal By County Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman By County
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt 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 By County "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses By County
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston By County When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire By County
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer By County "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) By County
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard By County This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa By County
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes By County "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) By County
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) 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 By County First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers By County
