Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar R blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker R
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous R Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) R
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker R Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth R
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous 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 Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? R History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) R
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody R Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin R
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck R An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley R
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray R We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler R
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow R Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard R
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) R Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley R
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais R Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) R
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The R People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? R
