I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 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 The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Guides and Charters Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Guides and Charters
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Guides and Charters "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Guides and Charters
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Guides and Charters When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Charters
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Guides and Charters I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Guides and Charters
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Guides and Charters We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Guides and Charters
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Guides and Charters "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Guides and Charters
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Charters History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Guides and Charters
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Charters Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Guides and Charters
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Guides and Charters Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Guides and Charters
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Guides and Charters The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Guides and Charters
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Guides and Charters Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Guides and Charters
