Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 Personal Pages Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Personal Pages "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
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Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Personal Pages "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Personal Pages
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Personal Pages If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Personal Pages
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Personal Pages "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Personal Pages
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Personal Pages You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "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) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Personal Pages Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Personal Pages
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Personal Pages "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "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) Personal Pages
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Personal Pages "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Personal Pages
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "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) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Personal Pages "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Personal Pages
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Personal Pages "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) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Personal Pages
