When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt O "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein O
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt O Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) O
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain O Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) O
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. O "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Man and wife make one fool. O
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek O 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" Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry O
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley O It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld O
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) O The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain 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 I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show O
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink O Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker O
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) O "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. O
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle O I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein O
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein O My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 O
