"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Issues "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Issues
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Issues "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Issues
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Issues "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Issues
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain 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 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Issues >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Issues
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Issues In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Issues
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Issues Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Issues
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 I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Issues "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Issues
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac 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 Issues People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Issues
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Issues When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Issues
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Issues There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Issues
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity 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 Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Issues Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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-- Grover Cleveland Issues
