For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song 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 There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Broughton Gifford The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Broughton Gifford
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Broughton Gifford Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Broughton Gifford
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Broughton Gifford Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Broughton Gifford
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Broughton Gifford The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Broughton Gifford
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Broughton Gifford There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Broughton Gifford
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Broughton Gifford Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Broughton Gifford
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler 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 Broughton Gifford "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Broughton Gifford
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Broughton Gifford Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Broughton Gifford
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Broughton Gifford Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Broughton Gifford
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 You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Broughton Gifford "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Broughton Gifford
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin 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.
-- In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Broughton Gifford Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Broughton Gifford
