"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) 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 Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Coleraine I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Coleraine
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Coleraine Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei 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 Coleraine
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "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) Coleraine Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Coleraine
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Coleraine Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Coleraine
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Coleraine If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Coleraine
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Coleraine "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Coleraine
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Coleraine "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Coleraine
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Coleraine I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Coleraine
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Coleraine "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Coleraine
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) 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 Coleraine It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Coleraine
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal 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. Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Coleraine To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Coleraine
