I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton V Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer V
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal V Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous V
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey V I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) V
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 The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye V Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 V
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain V blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker V
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the V I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) V
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson V Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) V
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died V No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin V
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael V There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger V
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher V 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 Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover V
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) V "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) V
