Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Y "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Y
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Y "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Y
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) 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 All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Y 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 Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Y
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Y The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Y
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Y Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Y
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Y Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Y
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Y "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Y
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Y I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Y
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils 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 "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Y "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Y
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) 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 "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Y The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Y
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Y "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Y
