America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
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-- Aldous Huxley Web Rings "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Web Rings
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Web Rings God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
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-- Peter DeVries "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Web Rings
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Web Rings Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Web Rings
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Web Rings The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Web Rings
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Web Rings A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Web Rings
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Web Rings Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Web Rings
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Web Rings "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Web Rings
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 Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Web Rings Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Web Rings I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Web Rings
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Web Rings They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 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 "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Web Rings
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Web Rings "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Web Rings
