"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx G Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf G
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt G Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac G
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous G I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli G
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p G "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell G
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa G Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 G
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige G Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood G
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. G Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston G
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron G "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening G
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson G The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty G
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford G Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) G
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards G It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce G
