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Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Bunkers "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Bunkers
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Bunkers "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Bunkers
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 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Bunkers Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Bunkers
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 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Bunkers Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Bunkers
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bunkers "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Bunkers
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Bunkers Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Bunkers
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole 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 Bunkers Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bunkers
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 "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Bunkers Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Bunkers
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Bunkers It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Bunkers
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Bunkers Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Bunkers
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Bunkers Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Bunkers
