Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot 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 The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Chamberlain, Arthur Neville "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Chamberlain, Arthur Neville
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Chamberlain, Arthur Neville It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Chamberlain, Arthur Neville
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chamberlain, Arthur Neville The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Chamberlain, Arthur Neville
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Chamberlain, Arthur Neville "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Chamberlain, Arthur Neville
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt 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 He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Chamberlain, Arthur Neville Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Chamberlain, Arthur Neville
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'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Chamberlain, Arthur Neville Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Chamberlain, Arthur Neville
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Chamberlain, Arthur Neville Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Chamberlain, Arthur Neville
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Chamberlain, Arthur Neville You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Chamberlain, Arthur Neville
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "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) Chamberlain, Arthur Neville "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Chamberlain, Arthur Neville
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Chamberlain, Arthur Neville The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Chamberlain, Arthur Neville
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Chamberlain, Arthur Neville You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Chamberlain, Arthur Neville
