| On Politics |
| In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. -- Thomas Pickering I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.-- De Gaulle You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.-Carrie Fisher A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. -- Bill Vaughan When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' -- Don Marquis America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice. -- Bismarck |
| On Perspective |
| Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?--Woody Allen There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. -- Don Herold Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. -- Katharine Whitehorn Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others. -- Jonathan Winters Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. -- Barry LePatner In the fight between you and the world, back the world. --Frank Zappa "Those who live in stone houses shouldn't throw glass."-Anon Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. -- Voltaire My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? -- Charles M. Schulz The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper The purpose of life is to fight maturity. -- Dick Werthimer The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. -- Doug Larson Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. -- Edgar Allan Poe Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. -- H. L. Mencken Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -- Leo Tolstoy I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some. -- Herbert Rappaport |
| MISC. |
| I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. -- William James Getting caught is the mother of invention. -- Robert Byrne I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld The shortest distance between two points is under construction. -- Noelie Altito The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. -- Laurence J. Peter MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's. -- Doug Ferrari The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein |