People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Government "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Government
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Government Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Government
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Government Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Government
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "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) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Government
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Government Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Government
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Government What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Government
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Government Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Government
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Government Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Government
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder 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 If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Government It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) 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 Government
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Government Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Government
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi 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 Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Government We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Government
