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Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Politics Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Politics
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Politics "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Politics
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Politics blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Politics Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Politics
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Politics After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Politics
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken 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 Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Politics Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Politics
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 There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Politics History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Politics
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Politics In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "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) Politics
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Politics 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 The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Politics
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Politics This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Politics
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Politics "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Politics
