Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Politicians 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 If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Politicians
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Politicians The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Politicians
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Politicians "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politicians
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Politicians Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Politicians
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Politicians Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Politicians
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Politicians Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Politicians
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Politicians Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Politicians
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Politicians I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Politicians
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Politicians Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Politicians
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Politicians Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Politicians
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Politicians Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Politicians
