Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Religion We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Religion
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Religion In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Religion
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Religion What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Religion
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Religion That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Religion
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Religion You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Religion
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Religion Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Religion
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Religion The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Religion
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "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 "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Religion Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers 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 To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Religion
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Religion Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Religion
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Religion Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Religion
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Religion Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Religion
