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"`Automatic'
simply means that you can't repair it yourself." - Mary H.
Waldrip
"`Contrariwise', continued Tweedledee, `If it was so, it might be; and
if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's
logic.'" - Lewis Carroll
"`It can't
happen here' is Number 1 on the list of famous last words." - David Crosby, rock
singer and musician
"A banker is a
fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it
begins to rain." - Mark Twain, American Writer (1835-1910)
"A beautiful
woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of the
eyes." - Fontenelle
"A blow with a
word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword." - Robert Burton, English author and
clergyman (1577-1640)
"A book may be compared to the life of your
neighbor. If it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it
too early." - H. Brooke
"A classic is
something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read." - Mark
Twain
"A conclusion is
the place where you got tired of thinking." - Arthur Block
"A conference is
just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles - Will
Rogers
"A diet is when
you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch." - Hermione Gingold,
actress-comedienne (1897-1987)
"A fellow who is
always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. " - Wilson
Mizner
"A friend is one
who warns you." - Near East proverb
"A good novel
tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its
author." - G. K. Chesterton
"A great teacher never strives to explain
his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself." -
Reverend R. Inman
"A hospital is
no place to be sick." - Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant turned famous movie
producer
"A hunch is
creativity trying to tell you something." - Frank Capra
"A jury consists
of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." - Robert
Frost
"A large brain,
like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way." - Donald
O. Hebb
"A large income
is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of." - Jane
Austin
"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive
could bear it; it would be hell on earth." - George Bernard Shaw
"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A.,
M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B." - "Fats"
Domino
"A man can do
what he wants, but not want what he wants." - Arthur
Schoperhauer
"A man cannot be
comfortable without his own approval." - Mark Twain
"A man is a
critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he
cannot be a soldier." - Gustave Flaubert
"A man is as
good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares." - Elbert
Hubbard
"A man lives by
believing in something, not by debating and arguing about many things." - Thomas
Carlyle
"A man that
studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."
- Francis Bacon
"A man who
seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society." - Frederick
the Great.
"A nation . . .
is just a society for hating foreigners." - Olaf Stapledon
"A painting in a
museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world." - Edmond
& Jules Goncourt
"A rumor without
a leg to stand on will get around some other way." - John Tudor
"A single death
is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin
"A stitch in
time would have confused Einstein." - anonymous
"A truth
that's told with bad intent|Beats all the Lies you can invent" - William Blake,
English poet, artist (1757-1827)
"A woman,
especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she
can." - Jane Austin
"A woman is only
a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke." - Rudyard Kipling
"A young man
with good health and a poor appetite can save up money." - James Montgomery
Bailey
"Advertising is
85% confusion and 15% commision." - Fred Allen, American humorist (1894-1956)
"Advice is like kissing. It costs
nothing and is a pleasant thing to do." - H. W. Shaw
"Advice is
seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least." - Earl of
Chesterfield
"All men are
equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference." -
Voltaire
"All men
naturally desire knowledge." - Aristotle, Greek philospher (384-322)
"All of us could take a lesson from the
weather. It pays no attention to criticism." - unknown
"All progress is
based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its means." -
Samuel Butler
"All you
need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure." - Mark
Twain
"Always do right. This will gratify
some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain
"America did not invent human rights.
In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented
America." - Jimmy Carter
"America is a fortunate country. She
grows by the follies of our European nations." - Napoleon
"America is the
only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
- Oscar Wilde
"An artist never
really finishes his work, he merely abandons it." - Paul
Valéry
"An expert is
someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to
avoid them." - Werner Heisenberg
"Anxiety is the
dizziness of freedom." - Soren Kierkegaard, Dansish Philospher (1813-1855)
"Any fool can
tell the truth, but it requres a man of some sense to know how to lie well." - Samuel
Butler, English poet and satirist (1612-1680)
"Any smoothly
functioning technology will have the appearance of magic." - Arthur C.
Clarke
"Any time you
have influence, try ordering around someone else's dog." - The Cockle
Bur
"Anyone who goes
to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined." - Samuel
Goldwyn
"Applause is the
spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones." - C. C.
Colton
"Art is the lie
that makes us realize the truth." - Pablo Picasso
"As far as the
laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality." - Albert Einstein
"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take
the course he will. He will be sure to repent." - Socrates
"As you ramble
on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep you eyes upon the donut, and not
upon the hole!" - Quote from Dr. Murray Banks
"Ask your child
what he wants for dinner only if he is buying." - Fran Lebowitz
"Ask yourself
whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so." - John Stewart
Mill
"Associate
yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to
be alone than in bad company." George Washington
"Astronomy
compels the soul to look upward and leads us from this world to another." -
Plato
"Baloney is
flattery so thick that it can not be true and blarney is flattery so thin that we like
it." - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
"Basic research
is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." - Wernher Von
Braun.
"Be an
optimist--at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Kennedy" -
Current Comedy
"Be careful of
your thoughts; they may become words at any moment." - Iara
Gassen
"Be happy. It is a way of being
wise." - Colette
"Be nice to
people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down." - Wilson
Mizner
"Be not so
bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of Truth." - Johann Georg Von
Zimmermann
"Beauty is also
to be found in a day's work" - Mamie Sypert Burns
"Being kissed by
a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt." -
Rudyard Kipling
"Believe nothing, O monks, merely because
you have been told it...or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have
imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for
the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be
conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings--that doctrine pelieve and
cling to, and take it as your guide." - Gautama Buddha, Indian philosopher (536?-483?
B.C.)
"Between two
evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before." - Mae
West
"Beware of
little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin
Franklin
"Beware of the
man who won't be bothered with details." - William Feather,
Sr.
"Beyond each
corner new directions lie in wait." - Stanislaw Lec
"Books are good
enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life." -
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Brain: an
apparatus with which we think we think." - Ambrose Bierce
"Bureaucracy is
a giant mechanism operated by pygmies." - Honoré de
Balzac
"Character is
what you know you are, not what others think you have." - Marva
Collins
"Clear writers
assume, with a pessimism born of experience, that whatever isn't plainly stated the
reader will invariably misconstrue." - John R. Trimble
"Clothes make the man. Naked people
have little or no influence on society." - Mark Twain, American Writer (1835-1910)
"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum: I
think that I think, therefore I think that I am" - Ambrose Bierce
"College
isn't the place to go for ideas." - Hellen Keller
"Comedy is
simply a funny way of being serious." - Peter Ustinov
"Common sense is instinct. Enough of
it is Genius." - George Bernard Shaw
"Common-looking people are the best in the
world: that is the reason the lord makes so many of them." - Abraham
Lincoln
"Compromise
makes a good umbrella but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient." - James Russel
Lowell, American editor (1819-1891)
"Conscience is
the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking." - H. L.
Mencken
"Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished
from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others." - Ambrose Bierce, American
author (1842-1914)
"Creative minds
always have been known to survive any kind of bad training." - Anna
Freud
"Cynicism is an
unpleasant way of saying the truth." - Lillian Hellman
"Death and taxes
may always be with us, but death at least doesn't get any worse." - Los Angeles
Times Syndicate
"Death meant little to me. It was the
last joke in a series of bad jokes." - Charles Bukowski
"Decay is inherent in all compounded
things. Strive on with diligence." - Buddha's last words
"Discretion is
the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it." -
Bovee
"Doctrine is
nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed." - Beecher
"Don't be afraid to take a big
step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." - David Lloyd
George.
"Don't be so humble. You're
not that great." - Golda Meir
"Dost thou love life? Then do not
squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin
Franklin
"Eat to please
thyself, but dress to please others." - Benjamin Franklin
"Education makes
people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to
enslave." - Henry Peter Brougham, Scottish statesman and historian (1778-1868)
"Even if
you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will
Rogers
"Everthing human is pathetic. The
secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow." - Mark Twain, American Writer
(1835-1910)
"Every age is
fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an
end." - Joseph Conrad
"Every child is an artist. The problem
is how to remain an artist after he grows up." - Pablo Picasso
"Every heart
that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and
bettered the tradition of mankind." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Every sentence
that I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question." - Niels
Bohr, Danish physicist (1885-1962)
"Every
successful person has had failures, but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual
success" - anonymous
"Everyone is
born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes." - Edgard
Varese
"Example is not the main thing in
influencing others. It is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer
"Exclusiveness
is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk." -
O'Malley
"Experience is the hardest kind of
teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward." -
Anonymous
"Faith, n.
Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things
without parallel." - Ambrose Bierce, American author (1842-1914)
"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your
efforts when you have forgotten your aim." - George Santayana
"Farming looks
easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from a cornfield." -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Fashion is a
form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." - Oscar
Wilde, British playwright, poet, and novelist (1854-1900)
"Few things are
more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own." - Doug
Larson
"Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay
off a house. You finally own it and there's no one to live in it." - Arthur
Miller, "Death of a Salesman"
"For my part,
the lonber I live the less I feel the need of any sort of theological belief, and the more
I am content to let unseen powers go on their way with me and mine without question or
distrust." - John Burroughs, American essayist (1837-1921)
"Frequent
punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government." -
Jean Jacques Rousseau
"Genius is an
infinite capacity for taking pains." - Jane Hopkins
"Genius is one
per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration." - Thomas Alva
Edison
"Get your facts
first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." - Mark
Twain
"Girls are like pianos. When
they're not upright, they're grand." - Benny Hill
"Give a small
boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding." -
Abraham Kaplan
"Give me a lever long enought, and a prop
strong enough. I can singlehandedly move the world." - Archimedes, Greek
mathematician (287?-212 B.C)
"Give me the
luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities." - Frank Lloyd
Wright
"God wisely
designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too
easily." - unknown
"Good judgement
comes from experience; and experience, well, that comes from bad judgement." -
Anonymous
"Goodness is the
only investment that never fails." - Henry David Thoreau
"Great Spirit,
help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks." -
Sioux Indian Prayer
"Half a
man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality
which is lost in the process." - E. B. White, American author (1899-1985)
"Harmony seldom
makes a headline." - Silas Bent, American writer (1882-1945)
"He is happiest
who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower." - Mary Howitt
"He is not an
honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company that the soup is
hot." - Yugoslav proverb
"He is winding
the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike." - William
Shakespeare
"He that is
proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle." -
William Shakespeare
"He that would
perfect his work must first sharpen his tools." - Confucius
"He who hurries
cannot walk with dignity." - fortune cookie
"He who is sorry
for having sinned is almost innocent." - Seneca
"He who wonders
discovers that this in itself is wonder." - M. C. Escher
"He whose face
gives no light shall never become a star." - William Blake, English poet and artist
(1757-1827)
"Heaven is under
our feet as well as over our heads." - Henry David Thoreau
"Hegel was right
when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history." - George Bernard Shaw
"Here's to
your love, health, and wealth--and time to enjoy each." - Spanish
Proverb
"Horse sense is
the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." - W.C.
Fields
"How can you
expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese? - Charles
de Gaulle
"Human history
becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H. G.
Wells
"I always say
that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained." - the Duke of
Wellington
"I am not afraid
of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today." - William Allen White,
American journalist (1868-1944)
"I am not
sincere, even when I say I am not." - Jules Renard
"I avoid looking
forward or backward, and try to keep going forward." - Charlotte Bronte, English
author (1816-1855)
"I believe that
every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession,
a duty." - John D. Rockefeller
"I do not fear computers. I fear the
lack of them." - Isaac Asamov.
"I don't
give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way." - Mark
Twain
"I don't
have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem" - Ashleigh
Brilliant
"I don't
necessarily agree with everything I say." - Marshall McLuhan
"I don't
think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." - Samuel
Goldwyn
"I got a simple rule about everybody.
If you don't treat me right, shame on you." - Louis Armstrong, American jazz
musician (1900-1971)
"I have long considered it one of god's
greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would
surely be unbearable." - Eugene Forsey
"I have made
mistakes, but have never made the mistake of claiming I never made one." - James G.
Bennet
"I have taken
more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me." - Winston
Churchill
"I know that
there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!" -
Tom Lehrer, Satirist and Professor
"I look forward
to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty." - John F.
Kennedy
"I may disagree
with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it." -
Voltaire, French writer and philospher (1694-1778)
"I never forget
a face, but in your case I'll make an exception." - Groucho
Marx
"I never put on
a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years." - Samuel
Goldwyn
"I once played a sheriff who thought he
could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty
minute show." - Ronald Reagan
"I predict that exact reproduction through
cloning will not become popular. Too many people already find it difficult to live
with themselves." - Jeanne Dixon
"I prefer the
errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom." - Anatole
France
"I think that
God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability." - Oscar
Wilde
"I use not only
all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." - Woodrow Wilson
"I will answer
anything I can with honor, but not about others." - John Brown, American abolitionist
(1800-1859)
"I would rather be attacked than
unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his
works." - Samuel Johnson
"I wouldn't
join any club that would have me as a member." - Groucho Marx
"I'm always
fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact." - Diane Sawyer
"I'm an idealist. I don't know
where I'm going, but I'm on my way." - Carl Sandburg
"I'm opposed
to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position." - Mark
Twain
"I'm very
critical of the U.S., but get me outside the country and all of a sudden I can't bring
myself to say one nasty thing about the U.S." - Saul Alinsky, American political
activist (1902-1972)
"I've been
trying for some time to develop a life style that doesn't require my presence." -
Gary Trudeau
"I've gone
into hundreds of (fortune-tellers' parlors), and have been told thousands of things,
but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her." - N. Y. C.
detective
"I've never
met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much
about his soul." - Haldane
"I've often
said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them." - B. F.
Skinner
"If, while you
are in school, there is a shortage of qualified personnel in a particular field, then by
the time you graduate with the necessary qualifications, that field's employment is
glutted." - Marguerite Emmons
"If a child
lives with approval, he learns to like himself." - Dorothy Law
Nolte.
"If all the cars
in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day weekend."
- Doug Larson
"If death did
not exist today it would be necessary to invent it." - Count Jean Baptiste
Milhoud
"If God had
really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport." - George
Winters
"If God lived on
earth, people would knock out all his windows" - Yiddish saying
"If I could drop
dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." - Samuel
Goldwyn
"If I have seen
farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." - Sir
Isaac Newton
"If I were a
medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work
important." - Bertrand Russell
"If poetry comes
not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it better not come at all." - John
Keats
"If the
aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk
it." - Stanley Garn
"If the only
tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham
Maslow
"If there is a
gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last." - Anton Chehkov,
advice to a novice playwright.
"If there is no
God, who pops up the next Kleenex?" - Art Hoppe
"If time be of
all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time
is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough." -
Benjamin Franklin
"If we make
peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable." - John F.
Kennedy
"If we take
science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the
old theology must go." - John Burroughs, American essayist (1837-1921)
"If you cannot convince them, confuse
them" - Harry S. Truman, U.S. President (1884-1972)
"If you cannot
get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it." - George Bernard
Shaw
"If you give me
six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him."
- Cardinal Richelieu
"If you hear a
wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory." - Sir Henry
Sidney
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him
prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and
a man." - Mark Twain
"If you think
nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments." - Earl
Wilson
"If you think
there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date." -
Olin Miller
"If you want a
place in the sun, you've got to expect a few blisters." - Dear
Abby
"If you want to
make enemies, try to change something." - President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
"If you're
strong enough, there are no precedents." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Imagination,
not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life." - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born
author (1857-1924)
"Imagination is
more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"In a painting I
want to say something comforting." - Vincent van Gogh
"In America there are two classes of travel
- first class, and with children." - Robert Benchley
"In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary,
'patriotism' is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due
respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the
first." - Ambrose Bierce, American writer
"In Paris they
simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots
understand their language." - Mark Twain
"In spite of
everything I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne
Frank
"In the province
of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true." - John
Lilly
"In these
matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain." - Pliny the
Elder
"In this world,
nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes." - Benjamin
Franklin
"Inflation is
when the buck doesn't stop anywhere." - Orben's Current
Commedy
"Inform all the
troops that communications have completely broken down." - Ashleigh
Brilliant
"Injustice
anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King,
Jr.
"Iron rusts from
disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does
inaction sap the vigors of the mind." - Leonardo Da Vinci
"Is there life
before death?" - Belfast Graffito
"Isn't it strange? The same people
who laugh at gypsy fortune-tellers take economists seriously." -
anonymous
"It has been
observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of
another, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of
the sense of smell" - Ambrose Bierce, American writer
"It is
always brave to say what everyone thinks." - Georges Duhamel, French author (1884-
1966)
"It is always easier to beleive than to
deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative." - John Burroughs, American essayist
(1837-1921)
"It is bad luck
to be superstitious" - Andrew W. Mathis
"It is better to
remain silent and thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." -
Anonymous
"It is easier
for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the
kingdom of god." - Matthew 19:24
"It is easier to
fight for principles than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler, Father of individual
psychology (1870- 1937)
"It is
impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." - Woody
Allen
"It is
impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious" -
anonymous
"It is impossible to travel faster than the
speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing
off." - Woody Allen
"It is neither
wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness." - Thomas
Jefferson
"It is not
necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it
is not necessary for me to know it myself." - Salvador Dali
"It is not
necessary to understand things in order to argue about them." - Pierre Augustin Caron
de Beaumarchais, French author-dramatist (1732-1799)
"It is not what
we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable." -
Moliere
"It is now
proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of leading causes of statistics." - Fletcher
Knebel
"It is odd, is
it not, that a person's worth to society by is measured by their wealth, when instead
their wealth should be measured by their worth to society." - A.
Cygni
"It is people
who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed." - Robert
Harbison
"It is perfectly true that the government is
best which govern least. It is equally true that the government is best which
provides most." - Walter Lippmann
"It is well to
remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of
others." - John Andrew Holmes
"It may be that
our role on this planet is not to worship god but to create him." - Arthur C.
Clarke
"It usually
takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." - Mark Twain,
American Writer (1835-1910)
"It was a blonde. A blonde to make a
bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window." - Raymond Chandler, "Farewell, my
lovely."
"It was always
thus; and even if 'twere not, 'twould inevitably have been always thus." -
Dean Lattimer
"It would be as
useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random
dots on untuned television screens." - Marvin Minsky
"It's a
small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it." - Steven
Wright
"It's not
easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line." - Ashleigh
Brilliant
"It's not
the things we don't know that get us into trouble; it's the things we do know that
aint so." - Will Rogers
"It's not true that nice guys finish
last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts." - Addison
Walker
"It's said
that pigeons are the smartest people around; they're always getting the drop on the
rest of us." - Anonymous
"Journalists are
like whores; as high as their ideals may be, they still have to resort to tricks to make
money." - A. Cygni
"Just the
omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a
library that hadn't a book in it." - Mark Twain
"Justice is
incidental to law and order." - J. Edgar Hoover
"Keep a stiff
upper chin." - Samuel Goldwyn
"Laughter is a
tranquilizer with no side effects." - Anonymous
"Learning music
by reading about it is like making love by mail." - Luciano
Pavarotti
"Less than
fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject.... The greatest
torture in the world for most people is to think." - Luther Burbank, American
horticulturist (1849-1926)
"Let everyone
sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean." -
Göthe
"Let us so
endeavor to live, that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry." -
Mark Twain.
"Let's have
some new cliches." - Samuel Goldwyn
"Life is an
unbroken succession of false situations." - Thornton Wilder, American playwright
(1897-1975)
"Logic is a
system whereby one may go wrong with confidence." - Charles
Kettering
"Love cures
people; both the ones who give it, and the ones who receive it." - Dr. Karl
Menninger
"Love your
neighbors, but don't pull down the fence." - Chinese
proverb.
"Luck can't
last a lifetime unless you die young." - Russell Banks
"Make things as
simple as possible, but no simpler." - Albert Einstein
"Man is a credulous animal and must believe
something. In the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad
ones." - Bertrand Russel, British philosopher (1872-1970)
"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, British playwright, poet, and novelist
(1854-1900)
"Man is an
infant, with the toys of a child, and delusions of adulthood." - A. Cygni,
Philosopher
"Man is only
happy as he finds a work worth doing, and does it well." - E. Merrill
Root
"Man is the only
animal that blushes... or needs to." - Mark Twain, American Writer (1835-1910)
"Man will
occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and
continue on." - Winston Churchill, British statesman and writer (1874-1965)
"Marriage is a
great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." - Mae
West.
"Marriage is the
only adventure open to the cowardly." - Voltaire, French writer and philospher (1694
-1778)
"Maybe this
world is another planet's hell." - Aldous Huxley
"Men don't change. The only thing
new in the world is the history you don't know." - President Harry S. Truman
(1884-1972)
"Men like to
pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths." - Gelett
Burgess
"Military
intelligence is a contradiction in terms." - Groucho Marx
"Miracles happen to those who beleive in
them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or
Hindus who have never heard of her." - Bernard Berenson, American art authority
(1865-1959)
"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing
succeeds like excess." - Oscar Wilde
"Money is like
an arm or leg: use it or lose it." - Henry Ford
"Money may be the husk of many things, but
not the kernel. It buys you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health;
acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or
happiness." - Henrik Ibsen
"Most of the
evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room." - Blaise
Pascal
"My husband gave
me a permanent wave, and now he's gone." - Dawn Messer
"My life has a
superb cast but I can't figure out the plot." - Ashleigh
Brilliant
"My notion of a
wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two
twenties." - Douglas Jerrold
"My religion
consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in
the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." - Albert
Einstein
"Never could any
increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of
liberty." - Hilaire Belloc
"Never insult an
alligator until after you have crossed the river." - Cordel
Hull
"Never invest
your money in anything that eats or needs painting." - Billy
Rose
"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.
One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life." - Sandra
Carey
"Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do, and they will suprise you with their ingenuity." - General
George S Patton, Jr.
"No, 'tis
not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill
serve...." - Mercutio, Romeo & Juliet, Act III, scene I, William
Shakespeare
"No affectation
of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind." - W. Somerset
Maugham
"No great
advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy." -
Lyman Beecher, American clergyman (1775-1863)
"No great
scoundrel is ever uninteresting." - Murray Kempton
"No man can be a
patriot on an empty stomach." - William Cowper, English poet (1731-1800)
"No man remains
quite what he was when he recognizes himself." - Thomas Mann, German author (1875-
1955)
"No one can make
you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"No one has ever
bet enough on a winning horse." - Richard Sasuly
"No one really
knows enough to be a pessimist." - Norman Cousins
"Nonchalance is
the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air." - Earl
Wilson
"Nostalgia is
the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time" -
Anonymous.
"Not to be able
to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a
more shameful thing yet." - Pericles
"Nothing can
bring you peace but yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing great
was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing is more
intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors." -
Beethoven
"Nothing is so
easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe." -
Demosthenes, Athenian orator and statesman (385?-322 B.C.)
"Nothing so
needs reforming as other peoples' habits." - Mark Twain
"Often it is
fatal to live too long. " - Racine
"Often you
must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second
reading." - Horace
"One
disadvantage of having nothing to do is you can't stop and rest." - Franklin P.
Jones
"One martini is
alright, two is too many, three is not enough." - James Thurber, American humorist
(1894-1961)
"One of the few
rules of Evolution is that extreme specialization results in eventual extinction." -
Hardin
"One should never make one's debut in a
scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age."
- Oscar Wilde
"One thing the
world needs is popular government at popular prices." - George
Barker
"One way to
prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing." - Frank
Sheed
"Opinion says
hot and cold, but the reality is atoms and emty space." - Democritus, Greek
philosopher (460?-370? B.C.)
"Our bodies are
our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners." - William
Shakespeare
"Our existence
is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." - Vladimir
Nabokov
"Our scientific power has outrun our
spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther
King, Jr.
"Over and over
again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found." - Kathleen
Norris, American author (1880-1960)
"Patriotism is a lively sense of collective
responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill." -
Richard Aldington, English poet, novelist, critic (1892-1962)
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can
only be achieved by understanding" - Albert Einstein
"Peace may cost
as much as war, but it is a better buy." - Anonymous
"Pedestrians
never seem to realize that they are a threat to the safety of cars." - Thomas
Sowell
"People who feel
well are sick people neglecting themselves." - Jules Romains
"People who have
what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really
don't want it." - Ogden Nash, American humorist and poet (1902-1971)
"People who
never get carried away should be." - Malcolm S. Forbes, American
publisher.
"People will
sleep better not knowing how their sausage and politics are made." -
Bismarck
"Perfection,
then, is finally achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is
nothing left to take away." - Antoine de St. Exupéry
"Pessimists have
already begun to worry about what is going to replace automation." - John
Tudor
"Politicians are the same all over.
They promise to build bridges even where there are no rivers." - Nikita
Khrushchev
"Politicians
should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories." - Arthur C.
Clarke
"Politics is not the art of the
possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
"Poverty in a
democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as
freedom is to slavery." - Democritus, Greek philosopher (460?-370? B.C.)
"Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit
and virtue. It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright." - Benjamin
Franklin
"Prejudice is
the reason of fools." - Voltaire
"Probably all
laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by
them" - Demonax (c 150 A.D.)
"Proverbs are
mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind." - W. R.
Alger
"Put more trust
in nobility of character than in an oath." - Solon
"Rainbows
apologize for angry skies." - Sylvia A. Viorol
"Real knowledge
is to know the extent of one's ignorance." - Confucius
"Real love
stories never have endings." - Richard Bach
"Really, we create nothing. We merely
plagiarize nature." - Jean Baitaillon
"Remember: the
average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top." -
Anonymous
"Research is to
see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought." -
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"Rest is not
idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day,
listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no
means a waste of time" - Sir J. Lubbock
"Resting on
one's laurels makes for an uncomfortable bed, and only crushes the laurels." - A.
Cygni, Philospher
"Rich men
without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without
chastity." - George Bernard Shaw
"Rivers in the
United States are so polluted that acid rain makes them cleaner." - Andrew
Malcolm
"Say what you
will about the ten commandments; you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there
are only ten of them." - H. L. Mencken
"Scripture teaches us to be as wise as
serpents and as harmless as doves. All too often, [we] are as wise as doves and as
harmless as serpents." - Moishe Rosen
"Seeing consists
of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of
detail." - Rudolf Arnheim
"Serendipity is
looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering the Farmer's Daughter." -
Julius H. Comroe.
"Since a
politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him." -
Charles de Gaulle
"Sleep is conducive to beauty. Even
velvet looks worn when it loses its nap." - Joan L. Zielin
"Smart is when
you believe only half of what you hear. Brilliant is when you know which half to
believe." - Orben's Current Comedy
"So far, I
haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost." - Kin
Hubbard
"Soap and
education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."
- Mark Twain
"Some painters
transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun." -
Pablo Picasso
"Some people regard discipline as a
chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly." - Julie
Andrews
"Some people
strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are." - John W.
Gardner
"Some people want to achieve immortality
through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not
dying." - Woody Allen.
"Space isn't remote at all.
It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards." - Fred
Hoyle
"Speak when you
are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." - Ambrose
Bierce
"Suicide is
cheating the doctors out of a job." - Billings
"Take care to
get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get." - George Bernard
Shaw
"Take from me
the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad." - Israel
Zangwill
"Take time to
deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in." - Andrew
Jackson.
"Technological
progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." - Albert
Einstein
"Tell the truth
and run." - Yugoslav proverb
"The alphabet will create forgetfulness in
the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember
themselves." - Socrates
"The Americans have need of the telephone,
but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys." - Sir William Preece, chief
engineer of the British Post Office, 1876
"The art of
acting consists of keeping people from coughing." - Sir Ralph
Richardson
"The art of
medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." -
Voltaire
"The author of
the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name." - Aldous
Huxley
"The average
woman would rather have beauty than brains because the average man can see better than he
can think" - anonymous
"The best measure of a man's honesty
isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom
scale." - Arthur C. Clarke
"The best way to
become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it." - Benjamin
Disraeli
"The bible shows
the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go." - Galileo
"The brain is a wonderful organ. It
starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into
the office." - Robert Frost
"The budget
should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of
officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest
Rome become bankrupt." - Cicero, Roman statesman (106 B.C.-43 B.C.)
"The coward
regards himself as cautious; the miser, as thrifty." - Publilius
Syrus
"The crowd will
follow a leader who marches twenty steps in advance; but if he is a thousand steps in
front of them, they do not see and do not follow him, and any literary freebooter who
chooses may shoot him with impunity." - Georg Brandes, Danish literary critic (1842-
1927)
"The despot, be
assured, lives night and day like one condemned to death by the whole of mankind for his
wickedness." - Xenophon
"The difference
between a rich man and a poor man is this: the former eats when he pleases, the latter
when he can get it." - Sir Walter Raleigh
"The dogs bark,
but the caravan passes." - Near East proverb
"The English
certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves." - Wyndham
Lewis
"The fault lies
not with our technologies but with our systems." - Roger Levian
"The fewer the
facts, the stronger the opinion." - Arnold H. Glascow
"The fickleness
of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of women who love me."
- George Bernard shaw
"The first
condition of immortality is death." - Stanislaw Lec
"The first thing
we do, let's kill all the lawyers." - Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part 2, act
ii
"The fixity of a
habit is generally in direct proportion to it's absurdity." -
Proust
"The flush
toilet is the basis of western civilization." - Alan Coult
"The future,
according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive." -
John Sladek
"The genius,
wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs." - Francis
Bacon
"The gods are
dead, but in their name|Humanity is sold to shame,|While (then as now!) the tinsel'd
Priest|Sitteth with robbers at the feast,|Blesses the laden blood-stain'd board,|
Weaves garlands round the buther's sword,|And poureth freely (now as then)|The
sacramental blood of Men!" - Robert Buchanan, Scottish poet, novelist, and playwright
(1841-1901)
"The good Lord
set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity--and
that's just not fair!" - Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of
Germany
"The great
artist is the simplifier." - Henri Frédéric Amiel, Swiss poet,
philosopher (1821-1881)
"The greatest
use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." - William
James
"The greatness
of a man can nearly always be measured by his willingness to be kind." - G.
Young
"The highest
happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is
unknowable."
"The Kingdom of
Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind." - John Burroughs, American essayist
(1837-1921)
"The ladder of
life is full of splinters, but they always prick hardest when you're sliding
down." - William Brownell
"The law is not an end in itself, nor does
it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right." -
William J. Brennan, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (1906-)
"The man who, in
a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a
week." - Voltaire
"The man who has nothing to boast of but his
ancestry is like a potato. The only good belonging to him is underground." -
Sir Thomas Overbury
"The meek shall
inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights." - J. Paul Getty
"The middle
class is always a firm champion of equality when it concerns a class above it; but it is
its inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it." - Orestes A.
Brownson
"The mistake you
make is in trying to figure it out." - Tennessee Williams
"The more the
pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of
conversation." - Plato
"The most
important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." - Reverend
Hesburgh
"The most
incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." - Albert
Einstein.
"The most
merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its
contents." - H. P. Lovecraft
"The older I
grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." - H. L.
Mencken
"The opposite of
a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be
another profound truth." - Niels Bohr
"The polar ice
cap is melting and all you can do is look at reruns of Barney Miller?" - 'What A
Guy', by Bill Hoest
"The pyramids
will not last a moment compared with the daisy." - D. H.
Laurence
"The reason
people blame things on previous generations is that there is only one other choice."
- Doug Larson
"The religion of
one seems madness unto another." - Thomas Browne, English physician, writer (1605 -
1682)
"The scientist
is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead." -
Luther Burbank, American horticulturist (1849-1926)
"The shortest
distance between two points is under construction" - Noelie
Altito
"The Show-off is
always shown up in a showdown." - fortune cookie.
"The smallest
fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen." - Aldous
Huxley
"The trouble
with our times is that the future is not what it used to be." - Paul
Valéry
"The trouble
with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most
people." - E. B. White
"The trouble
with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." - Lily
Tomlin
"The true artist
will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at
seventy, sooner than work at anything by his art." - George Bernard
Shaw
"The two most
important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer
on the construction site." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"The universe is
looking less and less like a great machine and more and more like a great thought." -
Ortega y Gasset
"The unnatural,
that too is natural." - Göthe
"The wisdom of
man never yet contrived a system of taxation that operates with perfect equality." -
Andrew Jackson
"The world has achieved brilliance without
conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." - Omar N.
Bradley, American general (1893-1981)
"The world holds
two classes of men--intelligent men without religion, and religious men without
intelligence" - Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri, Syrian Poet (973-1057)
"The world
stands aside to let anyone pass who know where he is going." - David Starr
Jordan
"The worst of
madmen is a saint run mad." - Alexander Pope
"There are four
kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy." - Ambrose
Bierce
"There are no
friends at cards or world politics." - F. P. Dunne
"There are no
second acts in American lives." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author (1896-1940)
"There are
thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." -
Thoreau
"There are trivial truths and the great
truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a
great truth is also true." - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (1885-1962)
"There are two
ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways
save us from thinking." - Alfred Korzybski
"There is a
capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is as
much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem." - Booker T.
Washington
"There is no
country and no people who can look forward to the age of leisure and abundance without
dread." - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (1883-1946)
"There is
nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know." -
Ambrose Bierce
"There is nothing to writing. All you
do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." - Red Smith
"There is only
one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad." - Salvador
Dali
"There is something fascinating about
science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling
investment of fact." - Mark Twain, American Writer (1835-1910)
"There was never
a good war or a bad peace." - Benjamin Franklin
"There's a fine line between genius and
insanity. I have erased this line - Oscar Levant
"There's
nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done
around the house." - Joe Ryan
"They always say
that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy
Warhol, American pop artist (1928-1987)
"Things are more
like they are now than they ever were before." - Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"Thirty-five is a very attractive age.
London's society is full of women who have of their free choice remained thirty-five
for years." - Oscar Wilde
"This world is comedy to those that think, a
tragedy to those that feel." - Horace Walpole
"Those who dream
by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." -
Edgar Allan Poe
"Those who
voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant or an enemy, must not wonder if it be at
last turned against themselves." - Aesop, Greek fabulist (620-560 B.C.)
"Those who
welcome death have only tried it from the ears up." - Wilson
Mizner
"Though we
travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it within us or we will find it
not." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Three things
are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he
ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do." - Thomas Aquinas, Italian
theolgian (1255-1274)
"Throw a lucky
man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth." - Arab
proverb
"Time is a great
teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." - Hector
Berlioz
"Time is what we
want most, but alas, what we use worst." - William Penn
"Tip the world
over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles." - Frank Lloyd
Wright
"To be seen is
the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead." - Norman
O. Brown
"To define a
thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself." - Georges Braque, French
artist (1882-1963)
"To err is
human, but to really foul things up requires a computer." -
anonymous
"To generalize
is to be an idiot." - William Blake, English poet, artist (1757-1827)
"To sin by
silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men." - Abraham
Lincoln
"To tyrants,
indeed, and bad rulers, the progress of knowledge among the mass of mankind is a just
object of terror; it is fatal to them and their designs." - Henry Peter Brougham,
Scottish statesman and historian (1778-1868)
"Too much of a
good thing is wonderful." - Mae West.
"Trapped, like a
trap in a trap." - Dorothy Parker
"Truth above
all, even when it upsets and overwhelms us." - Henri Frédéric Amiel,
Swiss poet, philosopher (1821-1881)
"Truth as a way
of shifting under pressure." - Curtis Bok, U. S. federal judge (1897-1962)
"Try not to
become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value." - Albert
Einstein.
"Two and two
continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the
critic for five." - Jame McNeil Whistler
"Universities
are designed for the convenience of the faculty, not for the convenience of the
students." - Adam Smith
"Unless a man
feels he has a good memory, he should never venture to lie." -
Montaigne
"Up is, by
definition, the direction which broadens horizons." - A. Cygni
"Use your health, even to the point of
wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; and
do not outlive yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
"Using words to
describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef." - Tom
Robbins
"Virtue is like
a rich stone, best plain set." - Francis Bacon
"War is just
when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms." -
Machiavelli
"Washington is a
city of southern efficiency and northern charm." - John F.
Kennedy
"We are all in
the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar
Wilde
"We are
continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble
problems." - John W. Gardner
"We are what we pretend to be." -
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"We didn't inherit the land from our
fathers. We are borrowing it from our children." - Amish belief
"We don't
look for truths, just excuses." - A. Cygni
"We forgive once
we give up attachment to our wounds." - Lewis Hyde
"We have all
passed a lot of water since then." - Samuel Goldwyn
"We have grasped
the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount." - Omar N. Bradley,
American general (1893-1981)
"We have no more
right to consume happiness without producing it that to consume wealth without producing
it." - George Bernard Shaw.
"We have really
everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language." - Oscar
Wilde
"We hold these
truths to be self-evident: all men could be cremated equal." - Vern
Parlow
"We must
unterpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority." - Alfred Adler, Father of
individual psychology (1870-1937)
"We seem to
believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming." - Don
Delillo
"We should
distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes." - Henry David
Thoreau
"We think in
generalities, but we live in detail." - Alfred North Whitehead, British philospher
(1861-1947)
"Weep not that
the world changes--did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to
weep." - William Cullen Bryant, American poet and editor (1794- 1878)
"What counts is
not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the
dog." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"What governs
men is fear of truth." - Henri Frédéric Amiel, Swiss poet, philosopher
(1821-1881)
"What time hath
scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit." - William
Shakespeare
"What you get is
a living; what you give is a life." - Lilian Gish, American
actress
"What's a thousand dollars? mere
chicken feed. A `poultry' matter." - Groucho Marx
"When a dog bites a man, that's not news
because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news." - John
Bogart, American journalist (1845-1921)
"When a man
tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: `whose?' - Don
Marquis
"When a thing is
funny, search it for a hidden truth." - George Bernard Shaw
"When a true
genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in
confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift
"When angry,
count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred." - Thomas
Jefferson
"When I was a kid, my parents told me what
to do. When I went to school, my teachers told me what to do. Now I'm
married, and my husband tells me what to do. I'm not going to use a computer and
let it tell me what to do." - Anonymous
"When I'm
good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad I'm better." - Mae
West
"When large
numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results." - Calvin
Coolidge
"When one has
good health it is not serious to be ill." - Francis Blanche
"When the
going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson, American
journalist.
"When the man
who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority
on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence." - Brand Blanshard
"When things go
wrong, don't go with them." - Anonymous
"When you are in
it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut" - anonymous
"When you return to your boyhood town, you
find it wasn't the town you longed for. It was your boyhood." - Earl
Wilson
"When you're
through changing, you're through." - Bruce Barton
"Whenever I hear
the word culture, I reach for my revolver." - Hermann Goring
"While forbidden
fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster." - Abigail van
Buren
"White hair is
not a sign of wisdom, only age" - Greek proverb
"Whoever tells
the truth is chased out of nine villages." - Turkish proverb
"Whoso diggeth a
pit shall fall therein." - Paraphrasing the Book of Proverbs
"Why doesn't
the fellow who says, 'I'm no speech maker', let it go at that instead of
giving a demonstration?" - Kin Hubbard
"Why is it that
we rejoice at a wedding and cry at a funeral? It is because we are not the person
involved." - Mark Twain
"Why is this thus? What is the reason
for this thusness?" - Artemus Ward
"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't
that where the fruit is?" - Frank Scully
"Wickedness is
always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything." - Samuel
Johnson
"Wir sind
gewöhnt daß Leute verhöhnen was sie nicht versthehen." (We are aware
that people will scoff what they do not understand) - unknown
"With the
monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by
it's moral adolescents." - Omar N. Bradley, American general (1893-1981)
"Woman is like a
teabag; you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." - First
Lady Nancy Reagan
"Wonder rather
than doubt is the root of knowledge." - Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Words can
sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds." - Elie
Wiesel
"Words wound. But as a veteran of
twelve years in the united states senate, I happily attest that they do not kill." -
Lyndon Johnson.
"Work to become,
not to acquire." - Confucius
"Working as a
journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy." - Nora
Ephron
"Writing free
verse is like playing tennis with the net down." - Robert Frost
"You can observe
a lot just by watchin'." - Yogi Berra
"You can tell
the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad." - Adali
Stevenson
"You can't have everything. Where
would you put it? - Steven Wright
"You can't
say civilizations don't advance . . . in every war they kill you in a new way." -
Will Rogers
"You simply
cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand
something about computers." - Timothy Leary
"You've no
idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it." - W.S.
Gilbert
"Young men are
apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober
enough." - Earl of Chesterfield
"Young men are
fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, fitter for new
projects than settled business." - Francis Bacon
Christianity: All
things whatsoever ye would that men do to you, do ye even so to them.|Judaism: What is
hateful to you do not to your fellowmen.|Brahmanism: Do naught unto others which would
cause you pain if done to you|Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you would find
hurtful.|Confucianism: Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that
you would not have them do unto you.|Taoism: Regard your neighbor's gain as your own
gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss.| Zoroastrianism: That nature alone is
good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good for itself.|Islam: No
one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother what which he desires for
himself. - The Golden Rule
Glendower: "I
can call the spirits from the vasty deep."||Hotspur: "Why, so can I, or so can
any man; But will they come when you do call for them?"| - William Shakespeare: Henry
IV, Part I, act iii, scene i
