May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous K Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur K
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) K I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. K
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law K "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying K
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 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson K Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller K
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell 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 "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) K Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa K
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George K "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) K
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker K "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd K
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward 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 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire K In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. K
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings K "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung K
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh K Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara K
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, K If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper K
