The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "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) Government How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Government
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Government What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Government
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Government Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Government
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Government "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Government
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Government I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Government
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Government Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Government
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 Government Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Government
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Government At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Government He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Government
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Government The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Government
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Government There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Government
