It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe History Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) History
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) History Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer History
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright History "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde History
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) History The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley History
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) History If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) History
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman History The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel History
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer History Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. History
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous 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 The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous 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" Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe History Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. History
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 makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov History May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen History
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows History "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around History
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart History In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) History
