Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Counties, Regions and Districts "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Counties, Regions and Districts
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Counties, Regions and Districts Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Counties, Regions and Districts
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Counties, Regions and Districts Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Counties, Regions and Districts
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Counties, Regions and Districts The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Counties, Regions and Districts
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France 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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Counties, Regions and Districts Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Counties, Regions and Districts
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Counties, Regions and Districts Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Counties, Regions and Districts
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Counties, Regions and Districts Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Counties, Regions and Districts
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Counties, Regions and Districts Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Counties, Regions and Districts
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Counties, Regions and Districts "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Counties, Regions and Districts
"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 Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Counties, Regions and Districts Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Counties, Regions and Districts
"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 "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Counties, Regions and Districts "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Counties, Regions and Districts
