Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Composers I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 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, The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Composers
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Composers "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Composers
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Composers Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Composers
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Composers "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Composers
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "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 Composers I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Composers
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Composers Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Composers
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Composers Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron 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 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Composers
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Composers Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Composers
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Composers "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Composers
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Composers Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Composers
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Composers When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Composers
