Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Tyne and Wear "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Tyne and Wear
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Tyne and Wear I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Tyne and Wear
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Tyne and Wear "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) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Tyne and Wear
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Tyne and Wear "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Tyne and Wear
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Tyne and Wear The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Tyne and Wear
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Tyne and Wear Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Tyne and Wear
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Tyne and Wear In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Tyne and Wear
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Tyne and Wear If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Tyne and Wear
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Tyne and Wear If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Tyne and Wear
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Tyne and Wear Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Tyne and Wear
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Tyne and Wear A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Tyne and Wear
