Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli M Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz M
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry M Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 M
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge M We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi M
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) M That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein M
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) M "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th M
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde M Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher 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 M
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. M Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar M
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) M Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) M
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau M "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) M
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words M The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson M
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 M "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words M
