The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Eglish Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Eglish
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Eglish The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Eglish
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Eglish "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) My other wife is beautiful. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Eglish
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Eglish Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Eglish
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Eglish "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "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) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Eglish
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Eglish The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Eglish
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Eglish Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Eglish
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Eglish I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Eglish
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Eglish I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Eglish
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Eglish Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Eglish
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Eglish If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Eglish
