 | Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who
find it. ~Andre Gide |
| The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless
bickering. ~Ashleigh Brilliant |
| Humanity has advanced when it has advanced, not because it has
been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and
immature. ~Tom Robbins |
| What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind
is being very wasteful. How true that is. ~Dan Quayle |
| When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They
rented out my room. ~Woody Allen |
| Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered? ~Woody
Allen |
| Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
~Gandhi |
| A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his
suspicions. ~Wilson Mizner |
| You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. ~Indiri Gandhi |
| There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
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| I hate women because they always know where things are.
~James Thurber |
| My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed
legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
~Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984 |
| The author of the Iliad is either Homer, or if not Homer, somebody
else of the same name. ~Aldous Huxley |
| More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads.
One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total
extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to chose correctly. ~Woody Allen |
| I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell
me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. ~Samuel Godlwyn |
| Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which
difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ~John Quincy Adams |
| The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
~Swedish Proverb |
| The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each
turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden. |
| The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and
breeds reptiles of the mind. ~William Blake |
| You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled
with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is
yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you,
and no one receives either more or less than you receive. ~Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett |
| There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none
are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary. ~Emmanuel |
| Happiness makes up for in height what it lacks in length.
~Robert Frost |
| Old age is fifteen years older than I am. ~Oliver Wendell
Holmes |
| The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him
absolutely no good. ~Ann Landers |
| This is the true joy in life; being used for a purpose recognized
by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little
clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to
making you happy. ~George Bernard Shaw |
| Beware the fury of a patient man. ~Publius Syrus |
| Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things
you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover. ~Mark Twain |
| Traffic is very heavy at the moment, so if you are thinking of
leaving now, you'd better set off a few minutes earlier. ~Anonymous Traffic Report |
| To forcibly remove a politician from office, one has to meet a
much higher standard of dishonesty. ~Michael Cooney |
| We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more
information in our heads. ~Vlade Divac |
| People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by
beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage? ~Imelda Marcos |
| There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had many of them.
~Casey Stengel |
| We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
~Winston Churchill |
| I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the
fourth will be fought with stones. ~A. Einstein |
| The most beautiful thing you can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is
a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead:
his eyes are closed. ~Albert Einstein |
| Smoking kills, and if you're killed, you've lost a very important
part of your life. ~Brooke Shields |
| A good listener is usually thinking about something else. |
| Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
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| The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to
despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. ~Russell Green |
| There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers
exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be
replaced by something even more bizarre an inexplicable. There is another theory
which states that this has already happened. ~Douglas Adams |
| Try to learn something about everything and everything about
something. ~T.H. Huxley |
| The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is
that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt too. ~Oscar Levant |
| It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has
descended from man. ~H. L. Mencken |
| One can survive everything nowadays except death, and live down
everything except a good reputation. ~Oscar Wilde |
| It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about
them. ~Caron de Beaumarchais |
| The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns
longer. ~Victor Borge |
| The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ~Alan
Kay |
| People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other
people have been left out of the pleasure. ~Russell Baker |
| Fiction is obligated to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
~Mark Twain |
| It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be
entirely uneducated. ~Henry David Thoreau |
| Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as
the earth. ~Albert Camus |
| Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear
question. ~Alice James |
| I am just going outside and may be some time. ~Captain
Lawrence Oates' Last Words |
| Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to
begin with, that it's compounding a felony. ~Robert Benchly |
| Unquestionably there is progress. The average American now
pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. ~H.L. Mencken |
| All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
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