If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Anahilt Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Anahilt
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anahilt "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Anahilt
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe 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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Anahilt Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Anahilt
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Anahilt This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Anahilt
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "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) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Anahilt You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Anahilt
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Anahilt Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Anahilt
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Anahilt When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. 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 Anahilt
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Anahilt The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Anahilt
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Anahilt "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Anahilt
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Anahilt "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Anahilt
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Anahilt Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Anahilt
