From: IN%"minow@bolt.enet.dec.com" "Martin Minow, ML3-5/U26 14-May-1990 0945" 14-MAY-1990 12:38:19.47 To: _TERRY CC: Subj: cookie.008 Received: from CUNYVM.BITNET by SPCVXA.BITNET; Mon, 14 May 90 12:35 EDT Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer R2.03B) with BSMTP id 3197; Mon, 14 May 90 12:13:30 EDT Received: from decpa.pa.dec.com by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.2MX) with TCP; Mon, 14 May 90 12:13:02 EDT Received: by decpa.pa.dec.com; id AA11121; Mon, 14 May 90 09:11:33 -0700 Received: from bolt.enet; by decpa.enet; Mon, 14 May 90 09:11:34 PDT Date: Mon, 14 May 90 09:11:34 PDT From: "Martin Minow, ML3-5/U26 14-May-1990 0945" Subject: cookie.008 To: address@bolt.enet.dec.com Message-id: <9005141611.AA11121@decpa.pa.dec.com> X-Envelope-to: terry The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. -- William Shakespeare %% America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. -- Louis D. Brandeis %% America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. -- Georges Clemenceau %% Ideals are the "incentive payment" of practical men. The oppurtunity to strive for them is the currency that has enriched America through the centuries. -- Robert E. Hannegan %% America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks. -- John Barrymore %% America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom -- is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for grain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man. -- Woodrow Wilson %% 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 %% If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word volunatry. -- Lyndon B. Johnson %% Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally, I know that she is better than every other country. -- Sinclair Lewis %% America is a country of young men. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph. -- Cordell Hull %% I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations. -- Henry Cabot Lodge %% Wake up, America. -- Augustus P. Gardner %% America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. -- Woodrow Wilson %% I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American. -- Daniel Webster %% Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal oppurtunity -- not simply for ourselves but for others -- the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be. -- Henry Ford II %% The interesting thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself. -- Woodrow Wilson %% America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Joseph Toynbee %% If the American dream is for Americans only, it will remain our dream and never be our destiny. -- Rene de Visme Williamson %% Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right. -- Carl Schurz %% If there is a country in the world where concord, according to common calculation, would be least expected, it is America. -- Thomas Paine %% America, thou half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land. -- Philip James Bailey %% The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad. -- Theodore Roosevelt %% In the field of world policy, I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt %% Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. -- Daniel Webster %% America has meant to the world a land in which the common man who means well and is willing to do his part has access to all the necessary means of a good life. -- Alvin Saunders Johnson %% America ... a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far- reaching in purpose. -- Herbert Hoover %% There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not. -- Adlai E. Stevenson %% Why is it, whenever a group of internationalists get together, they always decide that Uncle Sam must be the goat? -- Bertrand H. Snell %% America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations. -- Lyndon B. Johnson %% Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. -- H. G. Wells %% The less America looks abroad, the grander its promise. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that's sleeping in the unplowed ground. -- Lyndon B. Johnson %% Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. -- William Ellery Channing %% When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he generally be found to have gained in amiabiliy what he has lost in holiness. -- Samuel Butler %% How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. -- Anne Sophie Swetchine %% An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. -- Washington Irving %% Amusement: the happiness of those who cannot think. -- Alexander Pope %% Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. -- George Bernard Shaw %% The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. -- Ed Howe %% True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. -- Humboldt %% You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud. -- George MacDonald %% Amusement to an observing mind is study. -- Benjamin Disraeli %% I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep people from vice. -- Samuel Johnson %% If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. -- Honore de Balzac %% The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. -- Joshua Reynolds %% Life is worth living, but only if we avoid the amusements of grown-up people. -- Robert Lynd %% The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking. -- Phaedrus %% Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind. -- David Garrick %% When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. -- Michel de Montaigne %% If you leave Searcy, Ark., via Pleasure Street, the first towns you reach are Joy and Romance. -- L. M. Boyd %% The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each tends to ascribe to the other side a consistency, forsight and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, even two blind men can do enourmous damage to each other, not to speak of the room. -- Henry Kissinger %% It is harder to eat sparingly than to fast. Moderation requires awareness. Renunciation requires only the tyranny of will. -- Sandor McNab %% One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything and consequently get nothing. Each time I discover, and too late, that one thing had come to me while I was running after another. -- Andre Gide %% Humility does not thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom of thinking of yourself at all. -- William Temple %% Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think he is the governer of the Bank of England, another will think he is the king, and yet another will think he is God. Highly similar delusions, if expressed by educated men in obscure language, lead to professorships of philosophy, and if expressed by emotional men in eloquent language, lead to dictatorships. -- Bertrand Russell %% People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I do not believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. -- Bernard Shaw %% It is easier to be a "humanitarian than to render your own country its proper due; it is easier to be a "patriot" than to make your cummunity a better place to live in; it is easier to be a "civic leader" than to treat your own family with loving understanding; for the smaller the focus of attention, the harder the task. -- Sydney J. Harris %% The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says, "No man should have so much." The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says, "All men should have as much." -- Phelps Adams %% I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as part of life -- specifically fear of change and fear of the unknown; and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says, turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far. -- Erica Jong %% When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself as public property. -- Thomas Jefferson %% Showing up is 80 percent of life. -- Woody Allen %% What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. -- Norman Cousins %% Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. -- Ovid %% There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran %% Everyone is a self-made person, but only the successful admit it. %% The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it. -- Will and Ariel Durant %% God is a verb, not a noun. -- R. Buckminster Fuller %% If life were just, we would be born old and schieve youth about the time we'd saved enough to enjoy it. -- Jim Fiebig %% A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. -- Robert Frost %% It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and doscrimination half a block from home. -- Carl T. Rowan %% There is no love sincerer than the love of food. -- Bernard Shaw %% One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed. -- Ann Landers %% We spend the first part of our human experience avidly accumulating things and the other half wondering what in the world we're going to do with all the stuff. -- Margret E. Keats %% One of the world's worst questions: Will you promise not to get mad if I ask you something? -- Jane Goodsell %% One of the world's worst questions: Do you have statistics to back up that statement? -- Jane Goodsell %% One of the world's worst questions: You don't honestly expect me to believe that, do you? -- Jane Goodsell %% One of the world's worst questions: Haven't you any sense of humor? -- Jane Goodsell %% One of the world's worst questions: You don't remember me, do you? -- Jane Goodsell %% One of the world's worst questions: Have I kept you waiting? -- Jane Goodsell %% One of the world's worst questions: Now what's the matter? -- Jane Goodsell %% One of the world's worst questions: You asleep? -- Jane Goodsell %% One of the world's worst questions: So what? -- Jane Goodsell %% One of the world's worst questions: When are you going to grow up? -- Jane Goodsell %% An American is a person who demonstrates against a new power plant, then goes home and flips on all the lights, turns up the air conditioner, puts a tape in the stereo, opens the refrigerator door, plugs in the coffee maker and sits down to see if the television cameras caught him protesting. -- Wendell Trogdon %% The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath. -- Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart %% There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough. -- Wiliam Zinsser %% J. Paul Getty's formula for success: Rise early, work late, strike oil. %% I have a lot of excitement in my life. I used to call it tension, but I feel much better now that I call it excitement. -- Madeleine Costigan %% He has the courage of his connections. -- A. Hamburg %% The only idea that ever came to me while shaving was to grow a beard. -- Jim Fiebig %% Every time I get to thinking the world is moving too fast, I go to the Post Office. -- Bob Cordray %% Happy Vasectomy, Eric. Your loving wife and children: Chris, Aida, George, Carol, Yolanda, Joan, Shirley, Susan, Anita, Aileen, Jackie, Shelia, Bruce, Dean, Frank and Maxine. -- Rolling Stone Classified Ad %% The panther is like a leopard, Except it hasn't been peppered. Should you behold a panther crouch, Prepare to say Ouch. Better yet, if called by a panther, Don't anther. -- Ogden Nash %% The problem with a kitten is that Eventually it becomes a cat. -- Ogden Nash %% The rhino is a homely beast, For human eyes he's not a feast. Farewell, farewell, you old rhinoceros, I'll stare at something less prepoceros. -- Ogden Nash %% I don't mind eels Except as meals. And the way they feels. -- Ogden Nash %% The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex. I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile. -- Ogden Nash %% The camel has a single hump; The dromedary two; Or else the other way around. I'm never sure. Are you? -- Ogden Nash %% Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today. -- Ogden Nash %% The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk. -- Ogden Nash %% You're only supposed to put in the good ones! -- BAZ %% I objurgate the centipede, A bug we do not really need. At sleepy-time he beats a path Straight to the bedroom or the bath. You always wallop where he's not Or, if he is, he makes a spot. -- Ogden Nash %% Tell me, O Octopus, I begs, Is those things arms, or is they legs? I marvel at thee, Octupus; If I were thou, I'd call me us. -- Ogden Nash %% The thrush in my back yard sings down his nose in liquid runs of melody, over and over again, and I have the strongest impression that he does this for his own pleasure. It is a meditative, questioning kind of music, and I cannot believe that he is simply saying 'thrush here.' -- Lewis Thomas %% Watching television, you'd think we lived at bay, surrounded on all sides by human-seeking germs. We are instructed to spray disinfectant everywhere, into the air of our bedrooms and kitchens and with special energy into bathrooms. In real life, however, disease occurs so infrequently that it has a freakish aspect. -- Lewis Thomas %% The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance. -- Lewis Thomas %% Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. -- Lewis Thomas %% The great secret known to internists, but still hidden from the general public, is that most things get better by themselves. Most things, in fact, are better by morning. -- Lewis Thomas %% Want a thing long enough, and you don't. %% When politicians claim they will build you a "pie in the sky" -- remember whose dough they will be using. -- Lucille J. Goodyear %% A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after. -- Bill Vaughan %% In politics, if it's against you, it's a machine. If it's for you, it's an organization. %% Holding public office is like trying to dance in a nightclub. No matter what you do, you rub somebody the wrong way. -- Franklin P. Jones %% Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James %% You could prosper in the field of medical research. %% With those who follow a different way it is useless to take counsel. %% A new diet or exercise program can be unusually beneficial for you now. %% Keep your emotional exchanges on a tranquil level. %% You can become more assertive in regard to job assignments and co-workers. %% Remember to share good fortune as well as bad with your friends. %% The limerick's an art form complex Whose contents run mostly to sex. Two sexes of virgins, Their mutual mergin's, And vulgar erotic side effects. %% Most limericks are rather simple Popping up here and there like a pimple. All smut and dirt, Totally lacking in worth, Hell! if this ain't a perfect example. %% Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one. -- Howard Kenneth Nixon %% The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think mush about it. -- Richard Whately %% Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. -- Voltaire %% Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. -- H. F. Hedge %% My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off. -- Alexandre Dumas %% Everyone has something ancestral, even if it is nothing more than a disease. -- Ed Howe %% Birth is nothing where virtue is not. -- Moliere %% Some decent, regulated pre-eminehce, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor imploite. -- Edmund Burke %% Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. -- Lucan %% The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry, is like the potato -- the best part under ground. -- Thomas Overbury %% It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be man of merit. -- Horace %% We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of. -- George Chapman %% I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married. -- Moliere %% It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. -- Plutarch %% Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan %% We are all omnibuses in which our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them stickes his head out and embarrasses us. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes %% The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. -- Ezekiel, 17:2 %% Breed is stronger than pasture. -- George Eliot %% When angry count four; when very angry, swear. -- Mark Twain %% Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. -- William Rounseville Alger %% Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. -- Robert Green Ingersoll %% To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. -- Tyron Edwards %% Beware the fury of a patient man. -- John Dryden %% An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. -- Cato %% Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one. -- Halifax %% I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. -- William Blake %% Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding -- Mahatma Ghandi %% The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. -- Walter S. Landor %% Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. %% An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. -- Publius Syrus %% The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. We injure our own cause in the opinion of the world when we too passionately defend it. -- Charles Caleb Colton %% Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it all out; and when it does come it is out again immediately. -- Matthew Henry %% Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. -- Horace %% Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. -- H. G. Bohn %% Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -- Daniel Webster %% Anybody can become angry -- that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. -- Aristotle %% Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit. -- Epictetus %% The greatest remedy for anger is delay. -- Seneca %% When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. -- Haliburton %% Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. -- George Eliot %% If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard %% What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli %% Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. -- Samuel Johnson %% Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld %% A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But that is afterward decided, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes. -- Arthur Schopenhauer %% We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. -- Samuel Johnson %% Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes. -- Seneca %% The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. -- Norman Mailer %% The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. -- Josh Billings %% Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. %% Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst. -- Francis H. Bradley %% We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out ahother very often. -- Winston Churchill %% Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep it in the sunlight. -- Benjamin Franklin %% God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on top of them. -- Theodore Ledyard Cuyler %% How much have cost us the evils that never happened! -- Thomas Jefferson %% The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. -- James Russell Lowell %% Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors. -- Rudyard Kipling %% Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. -- Horace Greely %% There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice. -- Grover Cleveland %% The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and ahsten the resurrection of the dead. -- William Lloyd Garrison %% The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. -- Montesquieu %% Most people are on the world, not in it -- having no conscious sumpathy or relationship to anything about them -- undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate. -- John Muit %% ... indifference is a militant thing ... when it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery. -- Stephen Crane %% Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart. -- John Petit-Senn %% How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgements upon that which seems. -- Robert Southey %% The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. -- Daniel Webster %% Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely. -- Kin Hubbard %% You are only what you are when no one is looking. -- Robert C. Edwards %% The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. -- Elias Root Beadle %% The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape. -- William Shakespeare %% You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal -- no one will see it. But when a button is missing, everyone sees that. -- Erich M. Remarque %% There are no greater wretches in the world than namy of those whom people in general take to be happy. -- Seneca %% When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. -- Richard Cardinal Cushing %% Reason should direct and apetite obey. -- Cicero %% Any young man with good health and a poor apetite can save up money. -- J. M. Baily %% Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Animals feed; man eats. Only the man of intellect and judgement knows how to eat. -- Antheime Brillat-Savarin %% A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty. -- Seneca %% Debate is the death of conversation. -- Emil Ludwig %% People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton %% A long dispute means both parties are wrong. -- Voltaire %% Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. -- Louis Brandeis %% When must dispute has past, We find our tenets just the same as last. -- Alexander Pope %% The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. -- Lord Hailsham %% He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. -- Michel de Montaigne %% In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. -- Matthew Prior %% Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most unsubstantial, it is nott easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion than with a sword. -- Richard Whately %% Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments. -- Nathaniel Emmons %% The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. -- Ed Howe %% Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading. -- Jonathan Swift %% The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. -- Jawaharial Nehru %% Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains. -- Wendell Phillips %% Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in a matter of argument. -- Thomas Fuller %% What is aristocracy? A corporation of the best, of the bravest. -- Thomas Carlyle %% I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality. -- John Randolph %% Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton %% There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent. -- Thomas Carlyle %% Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Aristocracy is always cruel. -- Wendell Phillips %% Some will always be above the others. Destroy the equality today, and it will appear again tomorrow. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% A monied aristocracy in our country ... has already set the government at defiance. -- Thomas Jefferson %% The aristocrat is the democrat ripe and gone to seed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Authority forgets a dying king. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson %% If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. -- John F. Kennedy %% Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. -- Gilbert K. Chesterson %% The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. -- Pablo Picasso %% Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world. -- Andre Maurois %% Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. -- Oscar Wilde %% The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds. -- Jawaharial Nehru %% Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. -- Theodore Dreiser %% The course of nature is the art of God. -- Edward Young %% Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Art is a form of catharsis. -- Dorothy Parker %% In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Classic art was the art of necessity; modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and change. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. -- Johann von Goethe %% Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. -- Andre Gide %% As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure. -- John Dewey %% Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned. -- William Butler Yeats %% There is no such thing as modern art. There is art -- and there is advertising. -- Albert Steiner %% If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint. -- Mrs. Pablo Picasso %% The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. -- Michelangelo %% All art is a revolt against man's fate. -- Andre Malraux %% Nothing is so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in it's subject. -- George Santayana %% Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their sanctity. -- Thomas A. Edison %% Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow %% Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. -- Amy Lowell %% We must never forget that art is not a form of propagande, it is a form of truth. -- John F. Kennedy %% Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting. -- E. C. Stedman %% Great art is a irrational as great music. It is mad with its own lovliness. -- George jean Nathan %% The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their live into the sting they give. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plane can discuss horticulture. -- Jean Cocteau %% The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently resopnds to the same interests that a scientist does. -- Lewis Mumford %% The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. -- Max Eastman %% The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work. -- Johann von Goethe %% One who puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world. -- Henri de Montheriant %% The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. -- Henry Ward Beecher %% The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Assassination: the extreme form of censorship. -- George Bernard Shaw %% Assassination has never changed the history of the world. -- Benjamin Disreali %% Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood. -- William Shakespeare %% I come fairly to kill him honestly. -- Beaumont and Fletcher %% Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! -- Oscar Wilde %% He'd make a lovely corpse. -- Charles Dickens %% Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them. -- Ed Howe %% I'm proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. -- Thomas A. Edison %% I am an atheist, thank God! %% I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose. -- Clarence Darrow %% Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist there is no God. -- Heywood Broun %% To be an athiest requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which athiesm would deny. -- Joseph Addison %% There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan. -- Douglas MacArthur %% Athiesm is rather in the life than in the heart of man. -- Francis Bacon %% The athiest has no hope. -- J. F. Clarke %% An athiest is one hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief. -- Franklin P. Jones %% Infidelity does not consists in believing or disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. -- Thomas Paine %% An athiest is a man who has no invisible means of support. -- Fulton J Sheen %% Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or diminion. -- Joseph Addison %% Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. -- Thomas Huxley %% The wisest have the most authority. -- Plato %% All authority belongs to the people. -- Thomas Jefferson %% He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft. -- James Russell Lowell %% If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. %% All authority is quite degrading. -- Oscar Wilde %% Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood. -- Aeschulus %% Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. -- Anne Bradstreet %% The highest duty is to respect authority. -- Leo XIII %% Authority is no stronger than the man who weilds it. -- Dolores E. McGuire %% The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer. -- Vance Packard %% If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-botton finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright %% Jobs are physically easier, but the worker now takes home worries instead of an aching back. -- Homer Bigart %% We live in a time when automation is ushering in a second industrial revolution. -- Adlai E. Stevenson %% If you would abolish avarice, you must abolish its mother, luxury. -- Cicero %% Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold. -- Juvenal %% Avarice: generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. -- Samuel Johnson %% Avarice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the read the nearer we approach to our journey's end. -- Cicero %% Poverty wants some things, luxury many, avarice all things. -- Abraham Cowley %% The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yeilds no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. -- Zeno %% Avarice is always poor. -- Samuel Johnson %% Avarice is the vice of declining years. -- George Bancroft %% The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. -- Andrew Carnegie %% I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. -- Theodore Roosevelt %% Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. -- William Winans %% A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance. -- Herbert Spencer %% I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man. -- Michel de Montaigne %% A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg %% The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing. -- Kin Hubbard %% Babies are such a nice way to start people. -- Don Herold %% When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. -- James Matther Barrie %% By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. -- Oscar Wilde %% Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken %% A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. -- Helen Rowland %% Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. -- H. L. Mencken %% It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. -- H. L. Mencken %% The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married. -- Finley Peter Dunne %% I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. -- Richard Crashaw %% A single has not nearly the value he would bave in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. -- Benjamin Franklin %% A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and miserable dinner. -- Jean de La Bruyere %% Bargain: anything the customer thinks the store is losing money on. -- Kin Hubbard %% Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. -- Albert Einstein %% Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear for a penny. -- Plutarch %% There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant. -- Anatole France %% Beauty: it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and it you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. -- James Matthew Barrie %% Beauty is not caused. It is. -- Emily Dickenson %% There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. -- Countess of Blessington %% Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. -- Horace %% Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. -- Charles Reade %% Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. -- Johann von Schiller %% Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. -- Edward Gibbon %% Beauty is the first present nature gives to woman and the first it takes away. -- George Brossin Mere %% In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morely %% Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. -- Kin Hubbard %% Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe %% Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt. -- Kin Hubbard %% Be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet them on your way down. -- Wilson Mizner %% As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly. -- Lew Wallace %% I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. -- Orson Welles %% With a gentleman I try to be a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half. -- Otto von Bismark %% The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded. -- Kin Hubbard %% When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in beleiving that he has become civilized. -- E. C. Stakman %% We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. -- Michel de Montaigne %% It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. -- John Burroughs %% One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. -- John Stuart Mill %% Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable. -- Oscar Wilde %% Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. -- James Matthew Barrie %% Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. -- William James %% The pracitcal effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. -- James A. Froude %% The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. -- Robert Green Ingersoll %% The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity. -- John Sullivan Dwight %% The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. -- Alfred North Whitehead %% All numan discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come from on high and are contained in the sacred writings. -- John F. Herschel %% To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible conatins more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence. -- Walter S. Landor %% Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. -- Mark Twain %% The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. -- Samuel Butler %% There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed. -- Horace Greeley %% Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. -- Josh Billings %% A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. -- Joseph Addison %% The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes %% Bigotry murders religon to frighten fools with her ghost. -- Chalres Caleb Colton %% Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin %% The moment you're born you're done for. -- Arnold Bennett %% About the only thing we have left that actually descriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork. -- Kin Hubbard %% Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. -- Edward Young %% There are two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is -- twins. -- Josh Billings %% The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off. -- Benito Mussolini %% If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. -- Laurence Housman %% To heir is human. -- Dolores E. Mcguire %% Prevention of birth is precipitation of murder. -- Tertullian %% There is an odd saying here that a man must do three things during life: Plant trees, write books and have sons. I wish they would plant more trees and write more books. -- Luis Munoz Marin %% However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent. -- Pius XI %% No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. -- Margaret H. Sanger %% In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. -- Erasmus %% A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. -- Thomas Fuller %% There's none so blind as they that won't see. -- Jonathan Swift %% My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. -- Helen Keller %% Hatred is blind, as well as love. -- Thomas Fuller %% What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. -- Helen Keller %% Blood will tell, but it often tells too much. -- Don Marquis %% The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. -- Austin O'Malley %% No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody. -- Martin Luther %% The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required "blood, sweat and tears." -- Charles F. Kettering %% The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. -- Tertullian %% Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. -- Andrew Jackson %% Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood ... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them. -- Padraic Pearse %% Blood alone moves the wheels of history. -- Benito Mussolini %% Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day. -- Charles Kingsley %% HELP! MY TYPEWRITER IS BROKEN! -- E. E. CUMMINGS %% Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. -- Mark Twain %% When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. -- Gregory I %% As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. -- Jonathan Swift %% A healthy body is a great chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison. -- Francis Bacon %% Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. -- Frank Gelett Burgess %% A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. -- Christopher Morley %% We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell. -- Plato %% The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies. -- Flavius Josephus %% Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour. -- Joseph Hall %% Fortune befriends the bold. -- John Dryden %% Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. -- Tobias G. Smollett %% Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. -- Alexander Pope %% When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder. -- W. J. Slim %% Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. -- Emily Dickinson %% Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences; whence it is bad in council though good in execution. -- Francis Bacon %% It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. -- Walter Scott %% In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest. -- Livy %% Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. -- Lucan %% Boldness is a child of ignorance. -- Francis Bacon %% If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. -- William Hazlett %% That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit. -- Amos Bronson Alcott %% Some books leave us free and some books make us free. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. -- Theodore Parker %% A wicked book cannot repent. %% A room without books is like a body without a soul. -- Cicero %% The newest books are those that never grow old. -- Holbrook Jackson %% A book is like a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out. -- G. C. Lichtenberg %% A book is the only immortality. -- Rufus Choate %% Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. -- Henry David Thoreau %% Books are not men and yet they stay alive. -- Stephen Vincent Benet %% My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water. -- Mark Twain %% If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it. -- Bertrand Russell %% This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant. -- Thomas B. Macaulay %% A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. -- Margaret Fuller %% Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested. -- Francis Bacon %% Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. -- William Ellery Channing %% The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. -- Mark Twain %% Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson %% A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. -- W. H. Auden %% Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. -- Ambrose Bierce %% There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. -- Christian Nestell Bovee %% The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. -- H. L Mencken %% Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring. -- Hilaire Belloc %% The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. -- Samuel Butler %% Bore: A man who spends so much time talking about himself that you can't talk about yourself. -- Melville D. Landon %% Bore: A guy who wraps up a two-minute idea in a two-hour vocabulary. -- Walter Winchell %% Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. -- Bertrand Russell %% People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone else can be of another person. -- George Bernard Shaw %% We always get bored with those whom we bore. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld %% The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a begger. -- Morris Leopold Ernst %% If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. -- Benjamin Franklin %% The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: then men who borrow, and the men who lend. -- Charles Lamb %% Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so. -- Josh Billings %% Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on. -- Kin Hubbard %% He who borrows sells his freedom. %% Creditors have better memories than debtors. %% The fact that boys are allowed to esixt at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men. -- Ambrose Bierce %% I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. -- Thomas Cambell Clark %% When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face. -- Ed Howe %% Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. -- Kin Hubbard %% There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick. -- Kin Hubbard %% Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. -- James Thurber %% A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy. -- Gilbert K. Chesterson %% The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders. -- Herbert Hoover %% Boy: Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. -- Plato %% A boy is a magical creature -- you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. -- Allan Beck %% Never be so brief as to become obscure. -- Tyron Edwards %% The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. -- Felelon %% Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. -- Cicero %% The fewer the words, the better the prayer. -- Martin Luther %% There's a great power in words, it you don't hitch too many of them together. -- Josh Billings %% It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. -- Nietzsche %% Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. -- Cicero %% Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. -- Hosea Ballou %% On this shrunken globe, man can no longer live as strangers. -- Adlai E. Stevenson %% We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. -- Martin Luther King %% We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them as brothers. -- Booker T. Washington %% Brotherhood is the very price and condition of a man's survival. -- Carlos P. Romulo %% Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all. -- Heywood Broun %% We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. -- Lyndon B. Johnson %% It is easier to love humanity than to love one's neighbor. -- Eric Hoffer %% There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can. -- Mark Twain %% All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements or probabilities, and not on certainties.. -- Charles Eliot %% It is not the crook in modern business that we fear but the honest man who does not know what he is doing. -- Owen D. Young %% The successful business man sometimes makes his money by ability and experience; but he generally makes it by mistake. -- Gilbert K. Chesterson %% Business is a combination of war and sport. -- Andre Maurois %% A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. -- Charles M. Schwab %% Business is like riding a bicycle -- ether you keep moving or you fall down. %% The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the customer's dollar before the other fellow gets it. -- Stuart Chase %% A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. -- John D. Rockefeller %% It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? -- Henry David Thoreau %% The busy have no time for tears. -- Lord Byron %% Occupation is the scythe of time. -- Napoleon Bonaparte %% A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe %% Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which anyone can get into. -- J. Ogden Armour %% What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. -- Samuel Johnson %% The successful people are the ones who can think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at. -- Don Marquis %% Who makes quick use of the moment, is a genius of prudence. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater %% Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment. -- Leigh Hunt %% The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty. -- Johann von Schiller %% Busy souls have no time to be busybodies. -- Austin O'Malley %% Calamities are of two kinds. Misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. -- Ambrose Bierce %% He who forsees calamities, suffers them twice over. -- Belby Porteus %% Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. -- William Davenant %% Calamity is the test of integrity. -- Samuel Richardson %% Calamity is virtue's opportunity. -- Seneca %% It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man. -- Henry Mackenzie %% Calamity is a man's true touchstone. -- Beaumont and Fletcher %% Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. -- Benjamin Disreali %% Examine what is said, not him who speaks. %% Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. -- George Macdonald %% Grand and explicit -- that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others. -- Benjamin Disreali %% Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman. -- James Fenimore Cooper %% Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Gracious to all, to none subservient, without offense he spake the word he meant. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich %% There is no wisdom like frankness. -- Benjamin Disreali %% We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate. -- William James %% A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Ghandi %% The fundamental idea of modern capatilism is not the right of the individual to posess and enjoy what he has earned, but the thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good. -- Ralph Barton Perry %% Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. -- Alfred Marshall %% The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. -- Felix Frankfurter %% That cause is strong, which has not a multitude, but a strong man behind it. -- James Russell Lowell %% The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship. -- Ed Howe %% We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. -- William James %% No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction. -- John W. Scoville %% No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life in a great cause. -- Theodore Roosevelt %% In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. -- Julius Caesar %% The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error. -- William Jennings Byron %% A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men. -- Thomas Paine %% The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to die humbly for one. -- Wilhelm Stekel %% Great causes and little men go ill together. -- Jawaharial Nehru %% The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln %% Ours is an abiding faith in the cause of freedom. We know it is God's cause. -- Thomas E. Dewey %% Men are blind in their own cause. -- Heywood Broun %% It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same. -- Thomas Paine %% It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in disouragememt, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs. -- Guizot %% Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live. -- William P. Merrill %% If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause. -- Wendell Phillips %% Hasten slowly. -- Augustus Caesar %% I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. -- Henry Ward Beecher %% Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. -- Euripides %% The chief danger in life is that you may take too may precautions. -- Alfred Adler %% Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. -- Charles Hole %% Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. -- Miguel de Cervantes %% It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others. -- Publius Syrus %% Only the suppressed word is dangerous. -- Ludwig Borne %% I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts. -- James Robinson %% Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. -- Potter Stweart %% He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own. -- Elias Luman Maggon %% Every burned book enlightens the world. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. -- Walt Whitman %% Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. -- Ben Lindsay %% I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. -- Thomas Jefferson %% If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero. -- Voltaire %% As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. -- Beaumarchais %% Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there. %% Who gossips to you will gossip of you. %% We held a beauty contest in our town once but nobody won. -- Herb Shriner %% Order is Heaven's first law. %% I have never found that pay and pay alone would either bring together or hold good people. I think it was the game itself ... -- Harvey S. Firestone %% Always be suspicious of an associate who never finds fault with you. %% During a recent gravedigger's strike this sign appeared at the entrance of one cemetary: "Due to the strike all gravedigging for the duration will be done by a skeleton crew." %% It will be generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant examples. -- Charles Dickens %% Don't listen to what I say. Listen to what I mean! %% It is always better to proceed on the basis of a recognition of what is, rather than what ought to be. -- Stewart Alsop %% Some people who boast about how broadminded thay are may just be too lazy to find out which side they're on. %% Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work. -- Charles Sawyer %% A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom satisfied with others. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld %% The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. %% No one needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one. %% People rarely succeed at anything unless they have fun doing it. %% The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: "Nine out of ten people improve on acquaintance"; and I have found his words true. -- Frank Swinnerton %% Realistic leaders accept occasional disappointment as part of the job and make the best of it. %% Don't tell your friends your faults. They will correct the fault and never forgive you. %% Cynics are only happy in making the world as barren to others as they have make it for themselves. -- George Meredith %% Most of us can do more than we think we can, but usually do less than we think we have. %% Brevity is not only the soul of wit, but the soul of making oneself agreeable, and of getting on with people, and indeed of everything that makes life worth living. -- Samuel Butler %% It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt %% I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time. -- Josh Billings %% Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do. -- Lin Yutang %% If you want to be will liked by others, don't set out to make yourself liked. You will only be thinking of yourself that way. Instead, develop a sincere and genuine interest in other people and being liked will follow naturally. %% Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men to win them. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Success in marriage is not so much finding the right person as it is being the right person. %% For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. -- John Burroughs %% Authority is a poor substitute for leadership. -- John Luther %% It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring. -- Alfred Adler %% What we do with our leisure time is almost essential to our success as what we do during our working hours. %% The aim of learning is not knowledge but action. %% One business author recently estimated the average American encounters something like 2,000 sales messages a day. %% A robot gigantic and grand For desalinization was planned, And tested with bales Of Chaucerian tales That came out insipid and bland. -- C. M. and G. A. Maxson %% The robotic geneticist squirms When asked what eugenics affirms, And will not orate On man's future fate In sacred or secular terms. -- C. M. and G. A. Maxson %% A robot, concealing the way His wires fell into decay, Was outwardly quite The Arthurian Knight, But inwardly Dorian Gray. -- C. M. and G. A. Maxson %% Despising machines to a man, The Luddites joined up with the Klan, And ride out by night In a sheeting of white To lynch all the robots they can. -- C. M. and G. A. Maxson %% A robot played chess with a punch, But died with a hideous crunch One day when the pawns Appeared to be prawns And he gobbled them up for his lunch. -- C. M. and G. A. Maxson %% Every silver lining has a cloud. %% It's always darkest just before it gets pitch black. %% The light at the end of the tunnel is probably your house burning down. %% Do not try to tell me that things can't get any worse or that the only direction we can go is up. They can and it isn't. -- Nathan Cobb %% How pessimistic is he? Last week a friend borrowed his car and later left him a note saying the carburator was flooded. He immediately assumed the car had been driven into a lake. -- Nathan Cobb %% Nothing gives people the feeling that this is the worst of all possible worlds like discovering that the price of a wool crepe suit has risen to $600. -- Nathan Cobb %% Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. -- Jonathon Swift %% Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld %% The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. -- Demosthenes %% He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. -- William Gilmore Simms %% The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us. -- Seigneur de Saint-Evremond %% It is folly for an eminent man to think of excaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. -- Joseph Addison %% They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. -- William Penn %% I find that the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. -- Thomas Jefferson %% To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. -- Olin Miller %% Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. -- Nietzsche %% In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. -- Pliny the Elder %% If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. -- Francis Bacon %% There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. -- Owen Meredith %% To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. -- Ambrose Bierce %% Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life! -- George Meredith %% When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me. -- John Wesley %% All change is not growth; all movement is not forward. -- Ellen Glasgow %% Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. -- Elizabeth Clarke Dunn %% He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. -- Francis Bacon %% The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. -- Charles F. Kettering %% The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether business will survive at all in the face of social change. -- Laurence Joseph McGinley %% Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -- Leo Tolstoi %% There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place. -- Washington Irving %% We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped. -- Lyman Lloyd Bryson %% There is nothing permanent except change. -- Heraclitus %% Caveat Perrier (beware of seltzer water)!! %% Caveat Armor (beware of sausage links)!! %% Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changless state, it were indeed a cause to weep. -- William Cullen Bryant %% Things do not change, we do. -- Henry David Thoreau %% Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick %% I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within. -- Preston Bradley %% Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe %% Never swap horses crossing a stream. %% Caveat Emptor! %% We emphasize that we beileve in change because we born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it. -- Carl T. Rowen %% Let us not say, Every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, Every man is the architect of his own character. -- George Dana Boardman %% Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld %% A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. -- G. C. Lightenberg %% Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. -- Benjamin Disreali %% Man's hcaracter is his fate. -- Heraclitus %% You must look into people, as well as at them. -- Lord Chesterfield %% Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited. -- Robert Freeman %% What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. -- Jean Paul Richter %% The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality, and Independence -- Edward Rickenbacker %% There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and our thoughts, as well as our success. -- George Matthew Adams %% Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. -- Alphonse Kerr %% Charcter is a victory, not a gift. %% Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else. -- Thomas Carlyle %% Charity: a thing that begins at home and usually stays there. -- Elbert Hubbard %% Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. -- Erich Fromm %% As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. -- Victor Hugo %% He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. -- Samuel Johnson %% The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest. -- Henry Home %% A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. -- Jack London %% Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. -- I Corinthians 13:1-3 %% Charity sees the need, not the cause. %% With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in. -- Abraham Lincoln %% Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven. -- Henry Ward Beecher %% If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. -- Bob Hope %% What we frankly give, forever is our own. -- George Granville %% Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of his place, and alms-giving procures us admission. -- The Koran %% If you give money, spend yourself with it. -- Henry David Thoreau %% Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. -- George Eliot %% They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines, And they philantropically cure them all By getting up a costume charity ball. -- Ogden Nash %% The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. -- J. S. Buckminster %% It is more blessed to give than to receive. -- Acts 20:35 %% There are charms made only for distant admiration. -- Samuel Johnson %% A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm. -- Edgar Aaltus %% There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. -- Henry van Dyke %% Charm is more than beauty. %% A good laugh is sunshine in a house. -- William Makepeace Thackeray %% The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. -- Mark Twain %% Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller %% So of cheerfulness, or of good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence. -- P. Godwin %% Let us be of good cheer, remebering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. -- James Russell Lowell %% Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. -- Thomas Carlyle %% I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of human cheerfulness. -- Charles Dickens %% Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. -- Edwin Percy Whipple %% Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and immortality. Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our hearts. %% Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Cheer up! The worst is yet to come! -- Philander Johnson %% The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness. -- Christian Nestell Bovee %% Don't smell it, just eat it! -- BAZ %% It is dangerous to confuse children with angels. -- David Fyfe %% Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. -- Anna Jameson %% It is a wise child that knows his own father. -- Homer %% It is a wise father that knows his own child. -- William Shakespeare %% The best way to make children good is to make them happy. -- Oscar Wilde %% The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth %% The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation. -- Ray L. Wilbur %% Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes %% Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his own children. -- Ed Howe %% Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second be what thou will. -- Benjamin Franklin %% Children are our most valuable resource. -- Herbert Hoover %% Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children. -- Richard Henry Dana %% My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one. -- Groucho Marx %% A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. -- Marcelene Cox %% We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up. -- Christopher Morley %% Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow %% Children are poor men's riches. %% If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn't work, use the other side of the brush on the other end of the child. %% Between two evils, choose neither. Between two goods, choose both. -- Tyron Edwards %% In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people. -- Andre Maurois %% Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods. -- Charles Caleb Colton %% When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice. -- William James %% He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end. -- Henry Emerson Fosdick %% A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left to him. -- H. Matthews %% Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I. -- Alfred Kreymborg %% The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing. -- Leslie Dixon Weatherhead %% Christianity is a battle, not a dream. -- Wendell Phillips %% A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. -- Thomas Ybarra %% Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the needs of his neighbors. -- Ambrose Bierce %% Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- Gilbert K. Chesterson %% There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a christian on his death bed. -- Hannah More %% Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully. -- Charles Templeton %% If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. -- Henry Ward Beecher %% Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the hands of death. -- Friedrich Max Muller %% The church is actually patronized by the social order as a means of stabilizing and perpetuating the existing system. -- C. C. Morrison %% In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality. -- Thomas Campbell Clark %% The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. -- Charles deGaulle %% No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. -- Felix Adler %% The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. -- William Ralph Inge %% The most important office ... that of a private citizen. -- Louis D. Brandeis %% Citizenship consists in the service of the country. -- Jawaharial Nehru %% Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind. -- Ralph Barton Perry %% The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing to pull his own weight. -- Theodore Roosevelt %% Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world ... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share is to be noble. -- Isaiah Bowman %% Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. -- Andrew Jackson %% Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling. -- Abraham Lincoln %% Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" -- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself. -- John F. Kennedy %% If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danter of our government running America in the wrong way. -- Omar N. Bradley %% Civilization is not a burden. It is an oppurtinity. -- A.exander Meiklejohn %% Anyone can ba a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. -- Leonard Sidney Woolf %% The ture test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. -- Will Durant %% The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. -- Mark Twain %% You can't say civilization isn't advancing: In every war, they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers %% The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion. -- Thomas Carlyle %% Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity. -- Will Durant %% Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies. -- Clara Lucas Balfour %% In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal. -- W. R. Whitney %% Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as work, family and country; such as the individual, honor and religion. -- R. P. Lebret %% Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent. -- Bertrand Russell %% The true civilization is where every man gives to every other man every right that he claims for himself. -- Robert Green Ingersoll %% Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes %% All things now enjoyed by civilization have been created by some man and sold by another man before anybody really enjoyed the benefits of them. -- James G. Daly %% All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. %% There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class. -- Leonard Sidney Woolf %% Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of the face can smile while the other is pinched. -- Thomas Fuller %% The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. -- Albert Einstein %% The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. -- Henry Ward Beecher %% I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. -- Richard Rumbold %% Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. -- Walt Whitman %% Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. -- Joseph Stalin %% Clever men are good, but they're not the best. -- Thomas Carlyle %% A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. -- Israel Zangwill %% Cleverness is servicable for everything, sufficient for nothing. -- Amiel %% The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. -- Gilbert K. Chesterson %% Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. -- George Bernard Shaw %% Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. -- Arnold Bennett %% Cleverness is not wisdom. -- Euripides %% Cleverness may not be wisdom, but I have yet to discover a clever moron. -- Gary B. Wright %% It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld %% If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it. -- Charles F. Kettering %% When it comes to facing up to serious problems, each candidate will pledge to appoint a committee. And what is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. But it all sounds great in a campaign speech. -- Richard Long Harkness %% To get something done, a committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent. %% A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. -- Milton Berle %% A committee is the safest place to pass the buck. -- Gary B. Wright %% Committee: A cul-de-sac to which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. -- John A. Lincoln %% Common sense is genius in homespun. -- Alfred North Whitehead %% Common sense is very uncommon. -- Horace Greeley %% Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. -- Victor Hugo %% Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. -- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton %% He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. -- Charles Kingsley %% Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. -- Josh Billings %% Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgramage of life not to difficult. -- W. Somerset Maugham %% Common sense is compelled to make itw way without the enthusiasm of anyone. -- Ed Howe %% Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. -- Descartes %% Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. -- Josh Billings %% The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, ... tired of common sense and civilization. -- F. L. Lucas %% A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive shortwave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals. -- Robert M. Hutchins %% News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class publication and not news. -- Benjamin Disraeli %% Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. -- Frank Moore Colby %% The fantastic advances in the field of communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual. -- Earl Warren %% Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. -- Edward Fairfax %% We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until cummunication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries. -- Harry S. Truman %% Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs. -- Pierre Joseph Proudhon %% The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. -- Karl marx %% Communism possesses a language which every people can understand -- its elements are hunger, envy, and death. -- Heinrich Heine %% A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or proparing to eat you up. -- Winston Churchill %% Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity -- in short, of tyranny -- and it is committed to making tyranny universal. -- Adlai E. Stevenson %% Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy. -- Mao Tse-tung %% I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men. -- H. L. Mencken %% Communism means barbarism. -- James Russell Lowell %% What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his copper and pocket a shilling. -- Ebenezer Elliot %% The dew of compassion is a tear. -- Lord Byron %% The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion. -- Everett M. Dirksen %% The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands. -- Arthur H. Stainback %% Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. -- William Cowper %% Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. -- Fenelon %% Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. -- Benjamin Franklin %% I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe %% The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. -- Samuel Johnson %% Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives. -- Jonathan Swift %% We have no more right to put out discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and fob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware. -- Julia Moss Seton %% The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. -- Josh Billings %% The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the first to be replaced. %% If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one. -- Mark Twain %% When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last. -- Helen Rowland %% I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough. -- Mark Twain %% Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you. -- Jules Renard %% A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% You can find an outlet four your creative genius and accomplish a great deal. %% Your business will assume vast proportions. %% You are going to get some new clothes. %% You are never selfish with your advice or your help. %% Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both. -- Tyron Edwards %% An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last. -- Winston Churchill %% Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward. -- Reginald Wright Kauffman %% Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. -- James Russell Lowell %% It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man. -- Elbert Hubbard %% People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are the gutters. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower %% From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied. -- Louis Untermeyer %% Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. -- Samuel Johnson %% Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity. -- Bertrand Russell %% From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandonded. -- Charles Sumner %% My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- It gives a lovely light. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay %% What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. -- Bliss Carman %% All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. -- Edmund Burke %% To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. -- Publilus Syrus %% Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff -- it is a palliative rather than a remedy. -- Peter De Vries %% Nothing spoils a confession like repentance. -- Anatole France %% We confess little faults in order to suggest that we have no big ones. -- Fransois de La Rochefoucauld %% It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. -- Oscar Wilde %% Open confession is good for the soul. %% The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. -- St. Augustine %% The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. -- Marie Edgeworth %% I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it. -- Edgar Allan Poe %% For they conquer who believe they can. -- John Dryden %% All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. -- Mark Twain %% Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too. -- Storey %% He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. -- Auerbach %% If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. -- Abraham Lincoln %% Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. -- William Penn %% True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man. %% Conform and be dull. -- J. Frank Doble %% Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new read. -- Voltaire %% The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. -- Frederick Neitzsche %% I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike. -- Emile Henry Gauvreay %% If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. -- Henry David Thoreau %% Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. -- Benjamin Franklin %% Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. -- Turgenev %% Conformity is the treadmill most of us are content to walk. Great men blaze new trails, where there is less traffic, but more promise. -- Gary B. Wright %% We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. -- Mark Twain %% Conscience -- the only incorruptable thing about us. -- Henry Fielding %% The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. -- Mahatma Gandhi %% Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. -- George Santayana %% No ear can hear nor tongue tell the tortures of the inward hell! -- Lord Byron %% Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. -- H. L. Mencken %% Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. -- George Bancroft %% A good conscience is a continued Christmas. -- Benjamin Franklin %% He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. %% 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. -- Thomas Paine %% Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law. -- Lyndon Baines Johnson %% As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them. -- Louis Bromfield %% Conservation means the wise use of earth and its resources for the lasting good of men. -- Gifford Pinchot %% World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace. -- Gifford Pinchot %% The the secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach. -- Lin Yutang %% Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all. -- G. C. Lichtenberg %% It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. -- James Mackintosh %% Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. -- Thomas C. Haliburton %% Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. -- Socrates %% One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him. -- Christian Nestell Bovee %% One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. -- Eugene O'Neill %% Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. %% My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. -- Chalres Lamb %% Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and happy purchase. -- John Balguy %% If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably. -- Plautus %% The superiority of some men is mere local. They are great because their associates are little. -- Samuel Johnson %% Where there is much light, the shadow is deep. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe %% Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance. A wedding party returns from the church; and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten the dim mirror be heholds. -- Robert Eldridge Willmott %% The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. -- Saadi %% The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue. -- Samuel Johnson %% Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. -- Robert Charles Benchley %% Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors. -- Ralplh Waldo Emerson %% Silence is one great art of conversation. -- William Hazlitt %% Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. -- George Sala %% A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. -- Mark Twain %% Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld %% Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. -- Andre Maurois %% Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them. -- Lord Chesterfield %% Conversation should be pleasand without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. -- William Shakespeare %% I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. -- John Locke %% Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. -- Montesquieu %% So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal. -- Giuseppe Mazzini %% I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. -- Eugene V. Debs %% Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong! -- Stephen Decatur %% The world is my country, all mankind are my brethern, and to do good is my religion. -- Thomas Paine %% How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it. -- Henry George %% There is no such thing as a little country. the greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height. -- Victor Hugo %% Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. -- Thomas Jefferson %% There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. -- Edmund Burke %% The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. -- Lord Acton %% I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles, and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me. -- Giuseppe Garibaldi %% Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny. -- Daniel Webster %% Our country is the world -- our countrymen are mankind. -- William Lloyd Garrison %% There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country. -- Joseph Addison %% My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. -- Mark Twain %% Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. -- Gilbert K. Chesterson %% The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert Green Ingersoll %% One man with courage makes a majority. -- Andrew Jackson %% It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove. -- Owen D. Young %% I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it. -- Lyndon Baines Johnson %% Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear. -- Mark Twain %% This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. -- Winston Churchill %% True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. -- Samuel johnson %% Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win gloriuos triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt %% What a new face courage puts on everything! -- Rallph Waldo Emerson %% Last, but by no means least, courage -- moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle -- the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other. -- Douglas MacArthur %% Give us fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other. -- Oliver J. Hart %% Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner. -- Joseph Addison %% Courage is grace under pressure. -- Ernest Hemingway %% No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollock %% Court: a place where they dispense with justice. -- Arthur Train %% A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever. -- Henry Waldorf Francis %% Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide. -- Henry Waldorf Francis %% The place of justice is a hallowed place. -- Francis Bacon %% The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. -- H. L. Mencken %% Any clod can have the facts, but having an opinion is an art. -- Charles McCabe %% We are convinced that ... foreign capital will fulfill the role that Marx predicted for it ... with every additional shovel of coal, with every additional load of oil that we in Russia obtain through the help of foreign technique, capital will be digging its own grave. -- L. B. Kamanev %% The present turn made by the White House toward the cold war and economic blackmail against the Soviet Union and the socialist community creates a serious threat to Western Europe and Japan for convenient external energy sources. -- TASS, 1980 %% Life consists of accomodating oneself to the Universe. %% Life consists of accomodating the Universe to oneself. %% SIEGE SINISTER SERVICES SYNDICATE "The Villians Nine Rig Ruin" Reputations Ruined -- Competitors Bankrupted -- Dragons Wormed -- Basements Flooded -- Wells Dried Up -- Georges Exterminated -- Contracts Executed Promptly, bargain rates on mothers-in-law -- Juries Suborned -- Stocks, Bonds, and Gallows -- Saturday Night Specials -- Houses Haunted (skilled Poltergeist at no extra charge) -- Midnight Catering to Ghouls, Vampires, & Werewolves -- Incubi & Succibi for rent by the night or by the week -- 7-year itch powder. P. S. We Also Poison Dogs %% The meek shall inherit the earth, one meter wide and two meters long. %% There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corrollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science. Three: Be aware that you live in a malevolent Universe controlled by Murphy's Law, sometimes offset by Brewster's Factor; that's engineering. %% To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue. %% Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice. -- Baltasar Gracian %% Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. -- Henry Clay %% Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed. -- Erastus Wiman %% Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation. -- Michel de Montaigne %% If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. -- Francis Bacon %% Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. -- Jean Paul Richter %% The small courtesies sewwten life; the greater ennoble it. -- Christian Nestell Bovee %% We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson %% Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. -- Abel Stevens %% Intelligence and courtesy are not always combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow %% True politness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about as easy as one can. -- Alexander Pope %% The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way. %% There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. -- Mark Twain %% Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. -- Bishop Westcott %% A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. -- Thomas Jefferson %% Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. -- Ambrose Bierce %% At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin %% Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside. %% Fear has its use but cowardice has none. -- Mahatma Gandhi %% It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. -- Dolores Ibarruri %% To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. -- Confucius %% The coward threatens when he is safe. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe %% Cowards can never be moral. -- Mahatma Gandhi %% The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know. -- Napoleon Bonaparte %% Faint heart ne'er won fair lady. -- Miguel de Cervantes %% It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so. -- Junius %% Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. -- Ernest Hemingway %% How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. -- Jeremy Collier %% Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive. -- George A. Knight %% A cowardly cur barks more fiercly than it bites. -- Quintus Curtius Rufus %% Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valient never taste of death but once. -- William Shakespeare %% Ideas are the root of all creation. -- Ernest Dimnet %% Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. -- Mark Twain %% It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create. -- John Saxe %% Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements. -- Alphonso X %% The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker. -- Voltaire %% Creation is a drug I can't afford to do without. -- Cecil B. DeMille %% ... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain. -- Thomas Browne %% The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. -- Thomas Carlyle %% A programmer, name of Bob Willard Loved getting his gas tank gefillered. And now, with a smile, He drives fifty-five miles, And we just call him "fill more" (like Millard)! -- Paul Beck %% God created Man first, then Woman. You can't get everything right the first time. %% A country boy goes to the city to make enough money to retire and go back to the country to live. %% "Cocktail lounge" is a fancy name for it, but it's still just a bare-curtain saloon. %% Fortunatly for all concerned, the innocent children who listen to grandpa's stories never realize that they're getting the expurgated version. %% Flatterers always live at the expense of the one who listens. %% Swahili: The language used by the National Enquirer to print their retractions. -- Johnny Hart %% The most destructive criticism is indifference. %% Experience is a hard teacher. She tests first and teaches afterward. %% The time-tested truism: Actions speak louder than words. %% Just because a path is well-beaten is no proof it's the right one. %% Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. %% A friend is a present you give yourself. %% Often it takes as much courage to resist as it does to go ahead. %% We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do. %% Excuses are the leaning posts of fools. %% A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. %% Well-timed silence has more eloquence than speech. %% The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. %% The greatest remedy for anger is delay. %% Well done is better than well said. %% A person who follows the crowd will never be followed by a crowd. %%