"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "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) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Crime and Policing "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Crime and Policing
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Crime and Policing Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Crime and Policing
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Crime and Policing "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) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Crime and Policing
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster 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 "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide 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 Crime and Policing I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Crime and Policing
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Crime and Policing But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Crime and Policing
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All 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 a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Crime and Policing Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Crime and Policing
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Crime and Policing Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Crime and Policing
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Crime and Policing When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Crime and Policing
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Crime and Policing "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Crime and Policing
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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 That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Crime and Policing It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett 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 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Crime and Policing
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Crime and Policing To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Crime and Policing
