Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Getty, J. Paul He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio 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 In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Getty, J. Paul
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Getty, J. Paul Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Getty, J. Paul
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Getty, J. Paul Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Getty, J. Paul
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Getty, J. Paul "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Getty, J. Paul
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Getty, J. Paul "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 common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Getty, J. Paul
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 If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Getty, J. Paul 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 Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Getty, J. Paul
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz 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 "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) 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 Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Getty, J. Paul "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Getty, J. Paul
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Getty, J. Paul Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Getty, J. Paul
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Getty, J. Paul If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Getty, J. Paul
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Getty, J. Paul A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff 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 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 Getty, J. Paul
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "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 Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Getty, J. Paul You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will 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 I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Getty, J. Paul
