If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) 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 New Abbey A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain New Abbey
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" New Abbey Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen New Abbey
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot New Abbey Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) New Abbey
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach New Abbey Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper 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 New Abbey
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley New Abbey "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words New Abbey
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 "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson New Abbey He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali New Abbey
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous New Abbey We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) New Abbey
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) 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, A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine New Abbey Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous New Abbey
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain New Abbey The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) New Abbey
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott New Abbey The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire New Abbey
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) New Abbey I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "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) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) New Abbey
