"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." Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bruces, The I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. 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 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 Bruces, The
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Bruces, The Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Bruces, The
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Bruces, The Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Bruces, The
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Bruces, The Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Bruces, The
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Bruces, The The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Bruces, The
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Bruces, The Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Bruces, The
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. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain 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 A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Bruces, The Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Bruces, The
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Bruces, The "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Bruces, The
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Bruces, The "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Bruces, The
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Bruces, The Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. 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 Bruces, The
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster 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, Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Bruces, The You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Bruces, The
