 | I wonder whether the stars are set in heaven so that one day
each one of us can find his own again. ~Antoine de Saint Exupery |
| No one finds life worth living, he must make it worth living.
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| A decision is what a person makes when they can't get anybody
to serve on a committee. |
| To silence criticism is to silence freedom. ~Sidney
Hook, 1957 |
| If it were left to me to decide whether we should have
government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate to
prefer the later. ~Thomas Jefferson |
| When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is
wrought in our life, or in the live of another. ~Helen Keller |
| There is a time in the life of every problem when it's big
enough to be seen, yet small enough to solve. ~Mike Leavitt |
| Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his
judgment. ~La Rochefoucauld |
| You may not, cannot appreciate beauty. It is the wealth
of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king. ~Theodore Parker |
| History never looks like history when you are living in it.
~John Gardner |
| Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to
him, for you are not. ~Robert Henri |
| Cats seem to go on the principle that it never hurts to ask
for what you want. ~Joseph Wood |
| A gentle man opposed to their enfranchisement once said to
me: "Women have never produced anything of any value to the world."
I told him the chief product of the woman had been men, and left it up to him to decide
whether the product was of any value. ~Anna Shaw |
| It is very hard to fool yourself about yourself. ~The
Opinion, Dublin |
| During the campaign, we call for men of vision; afterward we
call them visionaries. ~The Opinion, Dublin |
| Nearly anyone can tell someone else how to behave.
~Buffalo Evening News |
| Wonder if anything else is as useless and yet as essential as
a man's necktie? ~Buffalo Evening News |
| Few people can stand to hear what they ought to hear. |
| Great events make me quiet and calm, it is only the trifles
that irritate my nerves. ~Queen Victoria |
| We began by imagining that we are giving to them; we end by
realizing that they have enriched us. ~Pope John Paul II |
| We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is
always ripe to do right. ~Nelson Mandela |
| We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean
air do we need? ~Lee Iacocca |
| Hawaii is a unique state. It is a state that is by
itself. It is a -- it is different from the other 49 states. Well, all states
are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation. ~Dan Quayle |
| If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. ~Dan
Quayle |
| We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not
occur. ~Dan Quayle |
| It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's
the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. ~Dan Quayle |
| I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.
~Dan Quayle |
| I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only
regret that I have is that I didn't study my Latin harder in school so I could converse
with those people. ~Dan Quayle |
| 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 |
| It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
~Dan Quayle |
| I stand by all the misstatements that I've made. ~Dan
Quayle |
| If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at
night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And
the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record. ~Mark S. Fowler, FCC
Chairman |
| Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to
understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment
like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those
whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know
that once ignorance is put aside that wonderment would be taken away which is the only
means by which their authority is preserved. ~Spinoza |
| Humility is like underwear; it's necessary, but it's indecent
if it shows. |
| God is a comedian playing to an audience who's afraid to
laugh. ~Voltaire |
| I ran three miles today. Finally I said, "Lady,
take your purse." ~Emo Phillips |
| Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through
the leather straps. ~Emo Phillips |
| I went into Gus's artificial organ and taco stand. I
said "Give me a bladder, por favor." The guy said, "Is that to
go?" I said, "Well, what else would I want it for?" ~Emo
Phillips |
| You know, a lot of girls go out with me just to further their
careers... damn anthropologists. ~Emo Phillips |
| The other day a woman came up to me and said, "Didn't I
see you on television?" I said, "I don't know. You can't see out the
other way." ~Emo Phillips |
| I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was
crushed. So I said, "Get off me, you two!" ~Emo Phillips |
| At my lemonade stand I use to give the first glass away free
and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
~Emo Phillips |
