"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Animals Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Animals
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Animals Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Animals
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 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 Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Animals Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Animals
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Animals If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Animals
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Animals "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Animals
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Animals I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Animals
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Animals You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Animals
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Animals The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "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) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Animals
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Animals "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Animals
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Animals During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Animals
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Animals "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Animals
