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A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Reform This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Reform
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Reform Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Reform
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Reform "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Reform
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Reform "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Reform
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Reform In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Reform
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 To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Reform "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Reform
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Reform At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Reform
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reform We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Reform
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Reform 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Reform
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Reform I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Reform
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Reform Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Reform
