"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Politics The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Politics
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller 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 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 Politics One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Politics
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Politics A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Politics
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Politics There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Politics
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Politics A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Politics
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Politics And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Politics
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Politics "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Politics
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Politics He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Politics
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Politics Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Politics
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott 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 "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) "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 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Politics
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks 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 I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Politics "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Politics
