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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Politics Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Politics
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law 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 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, "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Politics To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Politics
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Politics Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Politics
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Politics Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Politics
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" "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Politics The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Politics
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Politics You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Politics
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Politics Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Politics
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Politics Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Politics
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "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) Politics "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Politics
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics 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 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Politics
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Politics Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Politics
