If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Conductors What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Conductors
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "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) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Conductors When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Conductors
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "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 Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Conductors 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 I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Conductors
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Conductors He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Conductors
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Conductors Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Conductors
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Conductors I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars My other wife is beautiful. Conductors
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "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 Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Conductors The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Conductors
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Conductors Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Conductors
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Conductors Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "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) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Conductors
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Conductors A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Conductors
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Conductors If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Conductors
