Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry J I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins J
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein J Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde J
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) J "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 J
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) J Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all 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 Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford J
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright J Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie J
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun J An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf 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 The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. J
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg J In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre 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 J
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard J This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde J
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( J "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi J
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) 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,
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) J I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) J
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger J Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz J
