A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Road Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Road
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Road What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Road
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Road Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Road
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Road 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 In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Road
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Road Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Road
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Road "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Road
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Road There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Road
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch 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 The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Road "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Road
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Road Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Road
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Road No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Road
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Road "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Road
