Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. Robert Frost
A quick response is worth a thousand logical responses. Merle P. Martin
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. Henry B. Adams
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Robert Heinlein
How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life wouldn't you say? James T. Kirk
Conscious is when you are aware of something and conscience is when you wish you weren't.
If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow. Motto of the Green Berets
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. St. Francis De Sales
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. Ambrose Bierce
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. Socrates
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Old age is when you start giving good advice instead of setting bad examples.
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. J. Danforth Quayle
The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. Honore de Balzac
We have met the enemy and he is us. Walt Kelly in "POGO"
I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. Calvin Coolidge
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. Laurence Coughlin
Critics are like eunuches in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. Brendan Behan
God may be subtle. But He is not malicious. Albert Einstein
Authority tends to assign jobs to those least able to do them. Richard C. Cornuelle
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second. Jim Fiebig
Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with; something better than political opportunist slamming hate horseshit in the public park. Charles Bukowski
What does not destroy me, makes me strong. Friedrich Nietzsche
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. Phyllis Diller
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve. Hugh Trevor-Roper
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost
Skepticism, like chastity should not be relinquished too readily. George Santayana
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. Woody Allen
The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap - and they know it. Fred Friendly
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party. Joseph Stalin
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. Albert Einstein
There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations. Ihara Saikaku
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Laurence Peter
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. Laurence J. Peter
And you may ask yourself "Am I right? ... Am I wrong?" And you may say to yourself "MY GOD! ... WHAT HAVE I DONE?" The Talking Heads
When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money. Kin Hubbard
What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. Pedro Calderon de la Barca
If ignorance is no excuse, there doesn't seem to be much use for it.
Republicans consume three-fourths of the rutabaga produced in this country. The remainder is thrown out.
Winning is not everything. It's the only thing. Vince Lombardi
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. Jorge Luis Borges
I am responsible only to God and history. Francisco Franco
Well, I learned a lot... I went down [to Latin America] to find out from them and [learn] their views. You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries. Ronald Reagan
Maternity pay? Now every Tom, Dick and Harry will get pregnant. Malcolm Smith
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. George Bernard Shaw
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln
A winner isn't nearly as afraid of losing as a loser is secretly afraid of winning.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. Winston Churchill
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. Nikita Khruschev
To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer. Paul Ehrlich
Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river. Cyril Connolly
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. Mark Twain
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Matthew Browne
Thinking about what you can't control only wastes energy and creates its own enemy. Worf
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. John Barrymore
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune. Raymond Queneau
Figures won't lie, but liars will figure. Charles H. Grosvenor
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. Erich Fromm
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. Isaac Asimov
The correct way to punctuate a sentence that starts: "Of course it is none of my business but ... " is to place a period after the word "but." Don't use excessive force in supplying such moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about. Lazarus Long
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. Zsa Zsa Gabor
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. Martin Luther King
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. Samuel Butler
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. Ralph Waldo Emerson
But I have seen the science I worshipped and the airplane I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. William Hazlitt
I was in the darkness; I could not see my words Nor the wishes of my heart. Then suddenly there was a great light--- "Let me into the darkness again." Stephan Crane
There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. Will Rogers
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. Will Rogers
You are certainly entitled to your opinion. Fortunately, the rest of us are entitled to ignore it.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. Orson Welles
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. Victor Borge
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. Gen. George S. Patton
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton
I've got to be careful I don't over-cheerlead on this economy. George Bush
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more work. Jonas Salk
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. Joseph Stalin
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. Socrates
All general statements are false. R. H. Grenier
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. J. Danforth Quayle
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. Al Capp
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. Igor Stravinsky
Most women are more worried about closet space than outer space.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. Gore Vidal
The only accident [at Three Mile Island] is that this thing leaked out. You could have avoided this whole thing by not saying anything. Craig Faust (control-room operator at TMI)
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. Tallulah Bankhead
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not the only one that deserves to be laughed at? Greville
The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Adolf Hitler
The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Anatole France
In every hierarchy, whether it be government or business, each employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to execute its duties. Laurance J. Peter
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. Mark Twain
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success. Sting (Gordon Summer)
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. John Stuart Mill
Nothing in fine print is ever good news. Andy Rooney
Democrats eat the fish they catch. Republicans hang them on the wall.
If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point. Antonio Porchia
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Bertrand Russell
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. H. L. Mencken
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two. V. S. Naipul
There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all. Gore Vidal
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
All the wastes in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. Ronald Reagan
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Samuel Johnson
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. Lord Byron
Anyone who says he isn't going to resign, four times, definitely will. John Kenneth Galbraith
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? Alan Paton
Against stupidity, even the gods themselves contend in vain. Isaac Azimov
Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. Charles Kuralt
Women are nothing but machines for producing children. Napolean
Ninety per cent of everything is crap. Theodore Sturgeon
Never trust anyone over thirty. Jerry Rubin
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. Bernard M. Baruch
An optimist is a person who goes to the window every morning and says, "Good morning, God!" The pessimist goes to the window every morning and says, "Good god, morning!"
As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children. Anita Bryant
I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without constructive purpose. Spock
When Babe Ruth was asked how he felt about making more money than the President of the United States, he replied, "I had a better year than he did."
Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. W. Somerset Maugham
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome
There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know. So why fret about it? Lazarus Long
Flair is what marks the difference between artistry and mere competence. William Riker
Passions are fashions. Clifton Fadiman
Only the sinner has the right to preach. Christopher Morley
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed. Albert Einstein
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. Saki
The inevitable result of improved and enlarged communication between different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding. Thomas L. Martin
Republicans employ exterminators. Democrats step on the bugs.
A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year. Dixy Lee Ray
If you have trouble sleeping, try lying on the end of your bed. With a little luck you'll drop off. Mark Twain
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. R. Buckminster Fuller
If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem. I. F. Stone
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash. Sigmund Freud
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. R. W. Hamming
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Albert Einstein
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. Confucius
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Henry B. Adams
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. Peter McArthur
Never tolerate the establishment of two continental powers in Europe. Adolf Hitler
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. William F. Buckley
Time is the only critic without ambition. John Steinbeck
All things are only transitory. Goethe
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better ... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. Woody Allen
The man who knows how will always find a place in life, but the man who knows why will probably be his boss.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest. Tom Stoppard
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you. Francoise Sagan
I'll carry your books, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash & carry, Carry Me Back To Old Virginia, I'll even Hara Kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun. Hawkeye
You will need three umbrellas: one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train. James L. Blankenship
There's always an easy solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. H. L. Mencken
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. Robert Frost
One need only look at Dolly Parton to realize that good things don't always come in small packages.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. Will Rogers
All snakes who wish to remain in Ireland will please raise their right hands. Saint Patrick
Conservative, n: a statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. Ambrose Bierce
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. Winston Churchill
If you don't go to other men's funerals they won't go to yours. Clarence Day
It's better to keep your mouth closed and be presumed a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
Be careful who you step on on the way up; you never know who you'll pass on the way down.
Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin
Good politics are often inextricably intertwined. Morris Udall
Eat a live toad first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon
Now comes the mystery. Henry Ward Beecher
The persons hardest to convince they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime. Shannon Fife
To kind of suddenly try to get my hair colored, and dance up and down in a miniskirt or do something, you know, show that I've got a lot of jazz out there and drop a bunch of one-liners, I'm running for president of the United States... I kind of think I'm a scintillating kind of fellow. George Bush
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. Jonathan Kozol
He travels the fastest who travels alone. Rudyard Kipling
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. Winston Churchill
After large expenditures of federal, state, and county funds; after much confusion generated by detours and road blocks; after greatly annoying the surrounding population with noise, dust, and fumes, the previously existing traffic jam is relocated by one half-mile. Alan Deitz
We all admire the wisdom of the people who come to us for advice. Jack Hebert
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. William H. Mauldin
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence. Leon Trotsky
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. Herodotus
If you want a thing well one, do it yourself. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Research is reading two books that have never been read in order to write a third that will never be read.
We've sent a man to the moon, and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week, but for some reason nobody's ever done it. Andy Rooney
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. Dean Acheson
When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. Clifton Fadiman
If I had any humility I would be perfect. Ted Turner
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. James Baldwin
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. Dwight D. Eisenhower
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. Salvor Hardin
A army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience and morale ... and morale is worth more than all the other factors combined. Napoleon Bonaparte
It's easy to identify people who can't count to ten. They're the ones in front of you in the supermarket express lane. June Henderson
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Eric Hoffer
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. General Omar Bradley
There is no substitute for hard work. Thomas Alva Edison
The waste from one nuclear power plant in a year would take less storage space than a dining room table. Ronald Reagan
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
I will never apologize for the United States of America, ever. I don't care what the facts are. George Bush
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. J. Danforth Quayle
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. Ovid
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. Ambrose Bierce
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change. J. Danforth Quayle
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. Carl Sandburg
I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket. Lyndon B. Johnson
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. Karl Marx
I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in this country. J. Danforth Quayle
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. Ambrose Bierce
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. Napoleon
Democracy is the worst system devised by the wit of man, except for all the others. Winston Churchill
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. Sam Brown
Voters quickly forget what a man says. Richard Nixon
The measure of man is what he does with power. Pittacus
Every time you come up with a terrific idea, you find that someone else thought of it first. Frank Harden
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to. Franklin P. Jones
Tolerance means excusing the mistakes others make. Tact means not noticing them. Arthur Schnitzler
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. James Thurber
Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is. Ashleigh Brilliant
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. Oscar Wilde
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it. J. Robert Oppenheimer
In youth we learn how little we can do for ourselves; in age how little we can do for others.
Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity. Francois
There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back. Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. Morris Udall
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. Pope John XXIII
There really is no substitute for holding the reins. Jean-Luc Picard
In war there is no substitute for victory. General Douglas MacArthur
Irony is when you buy a suit with two pair of pants, and then burn a hole in the coat.
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. J. Danforth Quayle
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A picture is a poem without words. Horace
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash. Winston Churchill
The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places. Baltasar Gracian
Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is IN the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here. J. Danforth Quayle
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. the 14th Dalai Lama
Forget your opponents. Always play against par. Sam Snead
Man in the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass-produced with unskilled labor. Werner von Braun
You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. Rwandan proverb
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. Al Capone
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? Pope Julius III
There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy. Swift
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anais Nin
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation. Donald Trump
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. Sydney Harris
