Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine C "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil C
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway 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 "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) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac C There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time C
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx C Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet C
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig C You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre C
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli C Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) C
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty C 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous C
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw C "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe C
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde C "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov C
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. C I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford C
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner C I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous C
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton C When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. 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 C
