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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Government "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Government
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Government He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Government
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "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) Government A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Government
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) 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 Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Government Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Government
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Government Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Government If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Government
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee 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 Government Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Government
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Government
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Government 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 We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Government
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "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) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Government I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Government Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Government
