"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
DJs This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain DJs
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "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) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) DJs "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) DJs
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. DJs A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a DJs
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran DJs In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain DJs
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) 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 blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël DJs I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." DJs
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber DJs A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken DJs
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel DJs Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman DJs
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) DJs "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham DJs
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "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 "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal DJs Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia DJs
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad DJs We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner DJs
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis DJs Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise DJs
