"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Youth The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Youth
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Youth The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Youth
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Youth Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Youth
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Youth My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Youth
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. 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 The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Youth Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Youth
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Youth Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Youth
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Youth Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Youth
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Youth Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous 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 I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Youth
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Youth There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Youth
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 If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Youth When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Youth
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Youth A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Youth
