Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All West Sussex "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) West Sussex
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner 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 "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown West Sussex The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz West Sussex
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "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) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to West Sussex You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 West Sussex
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea West Sussex In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz West Sussex
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers West Sussex I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli West Sussex
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth 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 West Sussex People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land West Sussex
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf West Sussex "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer West Sussex
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin West Sussex Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) West Sussex
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb West Sussex "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) West Sussex
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy West Sussex Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) West Sussex
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost 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. "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) West Sussex "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp West Sussex
