Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Knowle "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Knowle
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 You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Knowle "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Knowle
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Knowle Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Knowle
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Knowle To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Knowle
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce 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 I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Knowle "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Knowle
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Knowle 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 is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Knowle
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Knowle You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Knowle
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) 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 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Knowle "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) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Knowle
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Knowle Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Knowle
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Knowle "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) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Knowle
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Knowle "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Knowle
