I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) By County Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 By County
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken By County Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats By County
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw By County Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus By County
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin By County Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. By County
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde By County The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "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) By County
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb By County I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller By County
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James By County "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon By County
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell By County "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) By County
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) By County "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi By County
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley By County I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) By County
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams By County Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain 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 By County
