"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Religion In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Religion
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Religion If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Religion
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Religion A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Religion
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Religion Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Religion
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Religion Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Religion
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Religion "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Religion
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Religion Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer 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 Religion
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues 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 "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Religion A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Religion
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) 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 I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Religion A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder 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 Religion
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Religion One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Religion
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Religion Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Religion
