All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Rotary Clubs "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) 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 A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Rotary Clubs
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li 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 Rotary Clubs 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 When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Rotary Clubs
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Rotary Clubs "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Rotary Clubs
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Rotary Clubs Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone 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 Rotary Clubs
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Rotary Clubs "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Rotary Clubs
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Rotary Clubs What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Rotary Clubs
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Rotary Clubs "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Rotary Clubs
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "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) Rotary Clubs Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
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The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Rotary Clubs I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
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The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
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bre You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Rotary Clubs A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Rotary Clubs
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Rotary Clubs "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
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