There is only one thing in the world 
worse than being talked about, 
and that is not being talked about.
		-- Oscar Wilde

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal 
with the intent of throwing it at someone else; 
you are the one getting burned.
		-- Buddha

The great are great only because we are on our knees. 
Let us rise!
			-- Max Stirner


We couldn't really write songs about cars and girls 
because we had no girlfriends and no cars.
                -- Musician Johnny Ramone, of punk band The Ramones


"Luck is my middle name .. my first name is Bad."


It is not important what you believe, 
only that you believe.


The law doth harshly punish the felon
Who steals a goose from off the common
But turns the greater felon loose
Who steals the common from the goose.


Madness takes its toll.  Please have exact change.


The point to remember is that what government gives, it must first take
away.
          -John S. Coleman


Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
		-- Groucho Marx


I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, 
the sound of which has always seemed to me 
the most civilised music in the world. 
		-- Peter Ustinov


No problem is so formidable 
that you can't just walk away from it. 


You can no more win a war 
than you can win an earthquake.
		--Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973)


A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.


... the privileged being which we call human is distinguished from
other animals only by certain double-edged manifestations which in
charity we can only call "inhuman."
                -- R. A. Lafferty


A society without a religion is like 
a crazed psychopath without a loaded .45.


Simplicity is the natural result of profound thought.


To err is human;
To purr feline.
         - Robert Byrne


No matter what a girl says or does to you, 
it either means she likes you... or she doesn't.


Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
                        - Popular Mechanics, 1949


As you examine something in more detail, 
you can measure fewer characteristics acurately.  
			-- Heisenberg


The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or,
perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and at length, the middle-aged
man concludes to build a workshed with them.
		-Henry David Thoreau - July 14, 1852


People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
		  -- Calvin


The test of a first rate intelligence is to hold two opposed ideas in your
mind at the same time and still retain your ability to function. You
should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be
determined to make them otherwise. 
		-- F. Scott Fitzgerald


There is no honor in any accomplishment we are forced into. 
		-- Roger


One who loses money loses much; one who loses a friend loses more; one who
loses courage loses all. 
		-- Pioneer Proverb


I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather.  
Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
		-- Jim Harkins


Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, 
hardworking, honest Americans.  It's the other lousy two percent 
that get all the publicity.  But then, we elected them.
		-- Lily Tomlin


Those who are willing to trade a modicum of freedom for a modicum of 
safety will lose both and deserve neither.


Your freedom ends where mine begins.


When they kick in your front door, how you gonna come...with your hands
on your head or on the trigger of your gun? 
		-- The Clash     


"640K ought to be enough for anybody."   - Bill Gates 1981


"If the core melted, there would be no power to light that sign!"
                            --  Homer J. Simpson in The Simpsons Episode
                                #7F22 (C) 1991 20th Television


The New Testament offers the basis for modern computer coding theory,
in the form of an affirmation of the binary number system:
	But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, nay: for
	whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
		-- Matthew 5:37


He who would do some great things in this short life must apply himself to
work with such a concentration of force such that, to idle spectators who
live only to amuse themselves, it looks like insanity.
                                - Francis Parkman


There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true
method.
		-- Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82


Atomic energy might be as good as our present-day explosives, but it is 
unlikely to produce anything much more dangerous.
			-- Winston Churchill


It doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to anything.
                                   - One of Einstein's teachers to
                                     Einstein's father.


I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
                                   - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943


I had learned that those who are lying or trying to cover up something
generally make a common mistake - they tend to overact, to overstate
their case. 
		-- Richard Milhous Nixon                


They say time is the fire in which we burn...


"When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear
to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril."
			-- Harry Truman


The ultimate result of protecting men from the results of their own folly
is to fill the world with fools.
			-- Herbert Spencer


There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers
exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will
instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre
and inexplicable.  There is another theory which states that this
has already happened.
		-- Douglas Adams


Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting
thought for those people who can't remember where they leave
things.


In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest
proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which
happen from time to time.
		-- Edward P. Tryon


Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man
doesn't have to experience it.
		-- Max Frisch


The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
		-- Kilgore Trout


I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when
it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
		-- Woody Allen


In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a
lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
		-- Douglas Adams


The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the
universe seems to be missing.
		-- William J. Broad


Programming today is a race between software engineers striving
to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe
trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is winning.
		-- Rich Cook


There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know
what it's a plan for.
		-- Fred Hoyle


My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
		-- Christopher Morley


I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing.  It's not holding
a charge.
		-- Edward Chilton


The end of democracy and the defeat of the american revolution will
occur when the governmant falls into the hands of banking institutions
and monied incorporations. 
		-- Thomas Jefferson


A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial 
appearance of being right.
		-- Tom Paine (Common Sense)


How are you going to construct something new, if you do the 
same old things?
		-- Major Moises (EZLN) To the Democratic 
		   National Convention, October 1994


There are only three sins--greed, anger and stupidity. 
		-- Nichiren Daishonin, 14th century Japan.


It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can
do.  There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you.
Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.
                -- Daniel Pinkwater, "A Hot Time in Nairobi"


Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
		-- Shakespeare


The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys: Power, like a
desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of
the human frame, A mechanized automaton.
                    --Percy Bysshe Shelley


If automobile technology had progressed the same way as computer
technology, a Rolls Royce would get 2,000 miles to the gallon, cost less
than $1,000, and every so often it would explode without warning.


If Microsoft made automobiles, every so often your car would just stop.
You'd hit the ignition and start it up again. Oddly, you would find nothing
wrong with this.


The man who is set free is nothing but a freed
man... a dog dragging a piece of chain with him: he is an
unfree man in the garment of freedom.
		--Max Stirner


He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - 
namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only 
necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
		-- "Tom Sawyer," 
		   by Mark Twain, Chapter 2, "The Glorious Whitewasher" 


Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a 
species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of 
reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, 
and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law 
strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was 
founded.
		-- Abraham Lincoln, speech to Illinois House of 
		   Representatives, Dec. 18, 1840


Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
(The more corrupt a republic, the more laws.)
		--Tacitus


The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great 
moral crises maintain their neutrality.
		-- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make
it worse.
		-- Brendan Behan (1923-1964)


When they took the fourth amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
When they took the sixth amendment, I was quiet because I was innocent.
When they took the second amendment, I was quiet because I didn't own a gun.
Now they've taken the first amendment, and I can say nothing about it.


In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to
obey just laws.  But at the same time, it is every citizen's 
responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
		-- Martin Luther King Jr.


The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any 
member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to 
others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient 
warrant.
		-- John Stuart Mill


Whenever the offense inspires less horror than the punishment, the
rigor of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of
mankind.
		-- Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman 
		   Empire, 1776


A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he
excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses
against them.
		-- H. L. Mencken, 1918.


The passing of an unjust law is the suicide of authority.
	-- Pastoral Letter of the American Roman Catholic Herarchy, Feb., 1920


Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
	-- Bertrand Russell: Saturday Review, 1951


Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open
discussion.
		-- Gustavo de Greiff.


Capital punishment--Them without the capital get the punishment.
		-- John Arthur Spenkelink, Killed by controlled
		   electrocution in the state of Florida, 10:18am,
		   Friday, May 25, 1979


When it (the sea squirt) finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need
its brain anymore, so it eats it.  Its a little like getting tenure."
                          -- D. Dennett


The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
		-- George Bernard Shaw 


The Internet, of course, is more than just a place to find pictures of 
people having sex with dogs.    
		-- Time Magazine, 3 July 1995 


Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right,
would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
		-- Dorothy Parker


I either want less corruption or more chance to participate in it.
			-- Ashleigh Brilliant


I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. 
			--Groucho Marx


Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
		-- Mark Twain (1835-1910)


The purpose of the police isn't to create disorder; it's to preserve
disorder.
		-- Mayor Daley at the Democratic National Convention.


You cannot paint "Mona Lisa" by assigning one dab each to a thousand 
painters. 
		-- Willian F. Buckley, Jr.


Happy is he who hath the power 
to gather wisdom from a flower.
			--Rosemary Gladstar


Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the 
world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. 
		-- Margaret Mead


The mark of a truly intelligent person is to hold two opposing
ideas in the mind at the same time and retain  your ability to function. We
should be able to see, for instance, that the situation is hopeless but be
determined to make it otherwise.
		-- F. Scott Fitzgerald


There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now.  I 
might as well take a nap.' 
		-- Carrie Fisher
 

2 rules to success in life. 
1. Don't tell people everything you know.


To do is to be (Socrates) 
To be is to do (Sartre) 
Do be do be do (Sinatra)


from Douglas Adams' 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy':
"...On this world the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The
people hate the lizards & the lizards rule the people.
"Odd," said Arthur. "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford, "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why
don't the people get rid of the lizards ?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them." said Ford. "They've all got the vote,
so they all pretty much assume that the Government they've voted in more or
less approximates to the Government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards ?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug. "Of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "Why?" "Because if they
didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "The wrong lizard might get in. Got
any gin ?"
Confirming ye olde anarkiste slogane 'if voting could change anything it
would be illegal'


Some mornings it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.


It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. 
		-- Epictetus


A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the
existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes
the destruction of human life.
                -- Godfrey H. Hardy


We can't all be heroes, some of us have to sit on the curb and wave as 
you go by!
                   -- Will Rogers


Behind every great person there is their behind.


The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. 
		-- Linus Pauling
 

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
		-- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.


I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked
with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad
that won't last out the year.
         - The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.


There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
         -- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital
	    Equipment Corp., 1977.


Those who trade a little freedom for a little security will soon find 
they have none of either.
		-- Jeff Poling 


A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of
thinking for oneself.
		-- A. A. Milne


It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. 
		-- Albert Einstein


I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous
and give the wrong answers.
		-- A Bit of Fry and Laurie
 

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian
because I hate plants.
		-- A. Whitney Brown


Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something 
else is more important than fear. 
		-- Ambrose Redmoon
 

It's difficult to remember your original purpose was draining the swamp
when you're up to your ass in alligators.


I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.
And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect
it.
		-- Jack Handy


I am a creationist; I refuse to believe that I could have evolved from 
humans.


They gave me a book of checks.  They didn't ask for any deposits.
     -- Congressman Joe Early (D-Mass) at a press conference to answer 
	questions about the House Bank scandal.


He didn't say that.  He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
		-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why
		   President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign
		   pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands


I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was
flying made what I was doing spying.
     -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets 
	for spying, in an interview after he was returned to the US


Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in
the country.
     		-- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.


Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of 
something else anyway.
	-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board, on chlordane


I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly
underpolluted.
     -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining
	why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries


Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.


I don't know anything about music.  In my line you don't have to.
                 -- Elvis Presley


There's a reason why every asshole is an asshole.  That doesn't make 
them any less of an asshole.
			--Harlan Ellison (philosopher)


Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre
minds.
		-- Albert Einstein


Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others
because you were born in it. 
		-- G.B. Shaw


The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
		-- Shakespeare, Henry VI


It is not necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice.  There
are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, the other is nostalgia.
                                -- Frank Zappa


Hlade's Law:
If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they will find
an easier way to do it.


Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give
possesses you. 
		-- Andre Gide


It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that
equality is an ethical and not a biological principle.
                -- Ashley Montagu


Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your
enthusiasm. 
		-- Winston Churchill


The wages of sin are death; but after they're done taking out taxes,
it's just a tired feeling.


Who'd have thought 25 years ago that one day you'd see a liberal feminist,
Jane Fonda, sitting next to her conservative millionaire husband, watching
two teams with nicknames offensive to Native Americans, playing baseball
in front of a sign advertising something called "Hooters."  Boy, we have
come a long way.
                -- Jay Leno


We experience moments absolutely free from worry.  These brief
respites are called panic.
        -- Cullen Hightower


People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and
have a tremendous impact on history.
                -- Vice President Dan Quayle


A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
         -- Vice President Dan Quayle


The perfect slave thinks he's free.


It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that
English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many
other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case.
                -- Sydney J. Harris


I hate tie-dye.
      --Jerry Garcia


Heck is where people go for not believing in Gosh.
               -- Sofia


Daphne:  Come on now, Dr. Crane.  It's not like men have never
         used sex to get what they want.
Frasier: How can we possibly use sex to get what we want?  Sex
         IS what we want!
              -- From a fall '95 episode of the television comedy, Frasier


The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything.  Except what
is worth knowing.  Journalism, conscious of this, and having
tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. 
		-- Oscar Wilde


Sometimes you can observe a lot by watching.
		-- Yogi Berra


Don't talk at me while I'm interrupting.
		-- Samuel Goldwyn


Just 'cause it's called common sense don't mean it's common.
		--Will Rogers


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


The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up
there.
		-- Robert M. Pirsig


If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why.


All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is
violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
		-- Arthur Schopenhauer


The point to remember is that what government gives, it must first take
away.
		-- John S. Coleman


Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. 
		-- Libbie Fudim


All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
                -- Sean O'Casey


Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have
never been able to make out the numbers. 
		-- Some Unknown Kid


Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. 
	-- Comedian John Rogers (who holds a graduate degree in physics)


There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world;
and that is an idea whose time has come.


Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular.


The working class? They're no problem.
I can buy one half to kill the other half.
                    -- J.P Morgan,  American Banker


Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he
gets angry, he'll be a mile away - and barefoot.


Journalism is merely history's first draft. 
		-- Geoffrey C. Ward


I would rather die on my feet than continue to live on my knees.
                                       -- E. Zapata


Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in a lottery. 
                  -- Calvin


Never respond to criticism; just repeat yourself.
                   -- George Bernard Shaw


The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of
nuclear giants and ethical infants. 
                    --Gen. Omar Bradley


Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of
conscience.
			--Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)


Blood IS thicker than water...but it makes lousy lemonade!
				--Alfred E. Neuman 


Yesterday is history.  Tomorrow is a mystery.  And today?
Today is a gift.  That's why we call it The Present.
                        -- Babatunde Olatunj


I do not take drugs.  I am drugs.
                        --Salvador Dali


The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are
finished.


Government knows how to do one thing:
break your leg, give you a crutch and then tell you how you couldn't be
walking without the Government.
		-- Harry Browne


The smell of sulfur was strong, but not unpleasant to a sinner.
		-- Samuel Clemens, upon visiting a Hawaiian volcano.


Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child
as it is to the caterpillar. 
			-- Bradley Miller


Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing
himself. 
		-- Leo Tolstoy


You will not convert those who feel no need for change.
		 -- M. A. Bakunin


Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and
car keys to teenage boys. 
		-- P.J. O'Rourke


If there be a principle that ought not be questioned within the United
States, it is that every man has the right to abolish an old government
and establish a new one. 
		-- James Madison (1751-1836)


To be sure, the dog is loyal.  But why, on that account, should we take
him as an example?  He is loyal to man, not to other dogs. 
		-- Karl Kraus


When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every
tree. 
		-- William Blake


Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
		-- Sir John Harrington


The illegal we do immediately.  The unconstitutional takes a little 
longer.   
		-- Henry Kissinger


It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one.
                 -- Phil White


If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve
going bump, bump, bump on the back of your head.
                 -- Pooh


Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
                --- Hector Berlioz


Beware of those who seek to take care of you lest your caretakers become
your jailers.  
		-- Jim Rohn


This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a
means of communication.  The device is inherently of no value to us.
		-- Western Union internal memo, 1876


In Nature the Strong live off the Weak and the Clever live off the
Strong.
                --Nick Zedd


The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important
point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly
important thing to people.
                -- Donald N. Smith, president of Burger King


Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is
shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. 
		-- Albert Einstein


Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to
feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest
them. 
		-- T.S. Eliot


Don't follow leaders.
		-- Bob Dylan


We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?
		-- Edward Young


Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad
people will find a way around the laws. 
		-- Plato


A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.
                         -- Wilma Askinas


Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
               		-- Frederich Nietzsche


A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
                             - linguist Max Weinreich


The power to tax involves the power to destroy.
                            - John Marshal
                              McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819


Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf.
Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure.
But th' shelf is th' main thing.
          	-- Finley Peter Dunne


There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
		-- Oscar Levant


LEADERSHIP: A form of self-preservation exhibited by people
            with autodestructive imaginations in order to
            ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll
            be someone else's bones which go crack and not
            their own.
                            -- Chad C. Mulligan


There's so much comedy on television.  Does that cause comedy in the 
streets?
			--Dick Cavett


The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a
hell of Heaven. 
			--John Milton


I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and
those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between
those who want freedom, justice, and equality for everyone, and those who
want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be
that kind of clash, but I don't think it will be based on the colour of 
the skin...
		-- Malcolm X


The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
		--The Art of Computer Programming, Donald Knuth


You must learn from the mistakes of others.  You can't possibly live long
enough to make them all yourself.
		--Sam Levenson


The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be
taken too seriously. 
		--Samuel Butler


Asking a writer 'where do you get your ideas' is like asking a butcher
'exactly what DO you put in this sausage'? 
                -- Roy Blount Jr.


They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
		-- Benjamin Franklin


Time measures nothing but itself.
		--Thoreau, 1849


I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not
live. 
		--Francoise Sagan


A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to
take it all away.
                -- Barry Goldwater


In disrespecting, we show that we still maintain a sense of respect.
		-- Nietzsche


In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true
or becomes true. 
		-- John Lilly


Where they start by burning books, they end up burning people.
                          -- Heinrich Heine


Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being 
governed by those who are dumber.
			-- Plato


The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
                -- Albert Einstein


What is actual is actual only for one time
And only for one place.
		-- TS Eliot


If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
		-- Gloria Steinem


Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how great your triumphs or how
tragic your defeats, approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.


It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of
statistics.
		-- Fletcher Knebel


I've been looking for a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
		-- Kinky Friedman


A cult is a religion with no political power. 
                        --- Tom Wolfe


Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights.
Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have 
for supper.
		-- Larry Flynt

Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
        --Mark Twain


We have met the enemy and he is us.
	--Walt Kelley


It is the duty of the artist to be malcontent.  Complacency
never inspired anything.
                      -- Winston Smith


If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.
        -- Philip Sheridan


Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe
you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it
to be sure.


As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things
you didn't do. 
		-- Zachary Scott


Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have
mediocrity thrust upon them.
		-- Joseph Heller


It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our
power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. 
		-- C.W. Leadbeater


In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the 
universe.
                 -- Carl Sagan, Cosmos


In nature there is neither right or wrong, only consequences.


Dare to be naive.
                -- R. Buckminster Fuller


It is in vain to hope to please all alike.  Let a man stand with his face
in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half
of the world. 
		-- George Dennison Prentice


Immorality is the morality of those who are having a better time.
        	-- H.L. Menken


When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. 
		-- Marquis de la Grange


What if there were no hypothetical situations? 
		-- Andrew Kohlsmith


People are more violently opposed to fur than leather, because it's safer
to pick on rich women than biker gangs.
		-- Lenny Schafer


Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong.
		-- Oscar Wilde


It's not pretty being easy.
		-- Bathroom graffiti, 1997


The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the
intelligent are full of doubt. 
		-- Bertrand Russell


It is odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English
is the only language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages
"You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case.
                -- Sydney J. Harris


Wisdom everywhere is being crushed under the dead weight of purposeless
information.
		-- British playwright, John Sessions, upon acquiring his
		   first computer


To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary
murder. 
		-- Albert Einstein


Southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you.
    		-- John Shelton Reed


I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
		-- Gilda Radner


Virtue is [the result of] insufficient temptation.
	        -- G. B. Shaw


If you live long enough, everything happens.
		-- Al Hirschfeld


Life is an art, not a science; you make it up as you go along.
		-- Al Hirschfeld


It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for
what we do not do. 
		-- Moliere


Mistrust those in whom the impulse to punish is strong.
                --Friedrich Nietzsche


Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their
simplification.
                -- Martin H. Fischer


Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments
of its opposers.
                -- William Penn


A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me. I'm afraid of widths.
		-- Steven Wright


We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
                -- Anais Nin


90% of everything is crap.
          --Theodore Sturgeon


Writing is easy; all you do is sit staring  at a blank
sheet of paper  until the drops of blood form on your forehead.
                --Gene Fowler, Journalist, novelist, & biographer


Mundus vult decipi
(the world wants to be deceived)


A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
                -- Adlai Stevenson


Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
		-- John G. Riefenbaker


I thoroughly disapprove of duels. I consider them unwise & I know they
are dangerous.  Also, sinful. If a man should challenge me now I would go
to that man & take him kindly & forgivingly by the hand & lead him to a
quiet retired spot & kill him.
		-- Mark Twain


Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which
properly concern them. 
		-Paul Valery


I am as bad as the worst, but thank God I am as good as the best.
	--Walt Whitman


The Revolution will not be televised.
		-- Gil Scott-Heron


Liberty means responsibility; that is why most men dread it.
		---George Bernard Shaw


Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes
prohibitive.
                -- William F Buckley, Jr.


All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is 
sure. 
		-- Mark Twain, U.S. Author (1835-1910)


I have my principles.  And if you don't like them, I have others. 
		-- Groucho Marx


It is absurd to divide people into good and bad.  People are either
charming or tedious.
		-- Oscar Wilde


You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours. 
		-- Ilka Chase


To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else. 
		-- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)


The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. 
		-- Linus Pauling


While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy 
making mistakes and becoming superior. 
		-- Henry C. Link


Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds.  Biochemistry
is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
                -- Mike Adams


The human race is a race of cowards; 
and I am not only marching in that procession 
but carrying a banner.
                -- Mark Twain


"If I could save the Union by freeing all of the slaves, I would.  If I
could save the Union by freeing none of the slaves, I would.  And If I
could save the Union by freeing some of the slaves, I would do that also."
			-- Abraham Lincoln


Whoever fights monsters must take care 
not to become a monster himself.
For, as you stand looking deep into the abyss, 
the abyss is looking deep into you.
		-- Nietzsche


Nearly all men can stand adversity, 
but if you want to test a man's character, 
give him power. 
		-- Abraham Lincoln


If you only have a hammer, 
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
		-- Maslow


The idea of time passing is an illusion, 
albeit a tenacious one.
		-- Albert Einstein


Nobody realizes that some people expend 
tremendous energy merely to be normal.
		-- Albert Camus


The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient 
while nature cures the disease. 
		-- Voltaire, French Philosopher (1694-1778)


Mistrust those in whom the impulse to punish is strong.
		--Friedrich Nietzsche


When you live in the shadow of insanity, 
the appearance of another mind 
that thinks and talks as yours does 
is something close to a blessed event. 
		-- R. Pirsig
 

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds.  
Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
                -- Mike Adams


The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.
                -- Horace Walpole


The law, in its majestic equality, 
forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, 
to beg in the streets,
and to steal bread.
                ---Anatole France


Life is the childhood of our immortality. 
		-- Goethe


I can't say I was ever lost, 
but I was bewildered once for three days.
                -- Daniel Boone



A psychotic is someone who 
just found out what's going on. 
	--William S. Burroughs 


I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. 
I'm frightened of old ones.
		-- John Cage


The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
		-- Henry David Thoreau


The more corrupt the state, 
the more numerous the laws.
        --Tacitus (A.D. 55?-130?)


Everyone also knows what ought to be done. 
Everyone reviles everyone who does not agree with him, 
and everyone differs, 
or agrees only in contempt for everyone else. 
As far as I can see, 
everyone is right.
		-- Henry Adams


Every great advance in natural knowledge 
has involved the absolute rejection of authority. 
		-- Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)


Philanthropy is commendable, 
but it must not cause the philanthropist 
to overlook the circumstances of economic 
injustice  which make philanthropy necessary. 
	-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)


Dave's Gem Number 113:
Crime is merely politics without the excuses.


You can preach a better sermon 
with your life than with your lips. 
		-- Oliver Goldsmith


Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity. 
		-- George Bernard Shaw


When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was 
so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the 
old man around.  But when I got to be twenty-one, 
I was astonished at how much the old man had 
learned in seven years.
		-- Mark Twain


You can't say civilization isn't advancing, 
in every war they kill you in a new way. 
	-- Will Rogers, American humorist (1879-1935)


I myself have never been able to find out 
precisely what feminism is: I only know that 
people call me a feminist whenever I express 
sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, 
or a prostitute.
                -- British novelist Rebecca West


Be the change you want to see in the world.
                -- Mahatma Gandhi


Life is the childhood of our immortality. 
		-- Goethe


It is easier to fight for one's principles 
than to live up to them.
	-- Alfred Adler (1870-1937)


A first-rate soup is more creative 
than a second-rate painting.
        -- Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)


Man is the only animal that believes 
God sits up nights thinking about him.
        	-- Mark Twain


Do you know what astonished me most in the world?
The inability of force to create anything.  In the
long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.

     -- Napoleon


Wear your learning, like your watch, 
in a private pocket, and do not pull 
it out and strike it merely to show 
you have one. If you are asked what
o'clock it is, tell it, but do not 
proclaim it hourly and unasked, like
the watchman.
		-- Lord Chesterfield


If there is anything we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is not
something that could better be changed in ourselves.
        -Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (1875-1961)


The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. 
		-John Milton (1608-1674)
		 [Paradise Lost]


Maybe we should not have humored them [American Indians] when 
they asked to live on reservations.  Maybe we should have 
said, No, come join us. Be citizens along with the rest of us.
                   -Ronald Reagan


People do not like to think. 
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
                -- Helen Keller


Those who will not reason are bigots, 
those who cannot are fools,
and those who dare not are slaves.
        -- George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824)
	   [Lord Byron]


We have met the enemy, and he is us.
		-- Walt Kelly


Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States.
Ask any Indian.
		-- Robert Orben


A Criminal is a person with predatory instincts 
without sufficient capital to form a corporation.
		-- Clarence Darrow


I don't know what money is today, 
and I don't think anybody at the Fed does either.
		-- Richard Pratt, Chairman of the Board of the Federal
				  Home Loan Bank, 1982


Lyle Hooper's last words [Okay, I admit it, it really was a
whorehouse], I think we can say with the benefit of hindsight
in the year 2001, might serve as an apt epitaph for a plurality
of working adults in industrialized nations during the 20th
Century.
                                -- Kurt Vonnegut


Your talent is God's gift to you.
What you do with it is your gift back to God.
			-- Leo Buscaglia


In three words I can sum up everything 
I've learned about life: 
It goes on.
	-- Robert Frost


The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
	-E. E. Cummings


If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would
be no more justified in silencing that one person than he,
if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
	--John Stuart Mill


Few things are harder to put up with than 
the annoyance of a good example.
            -- Mark Twain


When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of
a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation
but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and
you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night
you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you
encounter.
		--Albert Camus


You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
		--Neils Bohr


No man is an island entire of itself...any man's death
diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and 
therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee.
		--John Donne


The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
		--Ralph Waldo Emerson


You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire Universe,
deserve your love and affection.
		--Buddha


Arguments are to be avoided; 
they are always vulgar and often convincing.
		--Oscar Wilde


Too many have dispensed with generosity
in order to practice charity.
                --Albert Camus


In my beginning is my end.
        --T.S. Eliot


...with a certain kind of blues music, 
you can sit down and play it...
you may have to lean forward a little.
	-- Bob Dylan, 1966


There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD
and Unix. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
                --Jeremy S. Anderson


Government, in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in
its worst state, an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or
are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we
might expect in a country without a government, our calamity
is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by
which we suffer.
		--Thomas Paine


A patriot must always be ready to defend his
country against his government.
		-- Edward Abbey


At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true
revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is
impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking
this quality.
		-- Che Guevera


The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is
not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to
denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the
spirit of man.
		-- Albert Einstein


Everybody talks about the weather, 
but nobody does anything about it.
		-- Charles Dudley Warner


Man cannot remake himself without suffering. 
For he is both the marble and the sculptor.
		-- Alexis Carrel


This is my simple religion. 
There is no need for temples; 
no need for complicated philosophy. 
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; 
the philosophy is kindness.
		--The Dalai Lama


Absence diminishes small passions 
and increases great ones, 
as wind blows out candles and fans fire.
		-- LaRochefoucauld


A cynic is not merely one who 
reads bitter lessons from the past; 
he is one who is prematurely
disappointed in the future.
		-- Sydney Harris


Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
		--John V. Lindsay, former NY politician


Thanks for a nation of finks.
Thanks for a nation where nobody
is allowed to mind their own business.
		-- William S. Burroughs


My country is the world and my religion is to do good.
		-- Thomas Paine


I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves
me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.
As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and
an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money
power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign...
until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Repub-
lic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the
safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of
war.
		--President Abraham Lincoln, 1846


I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
		--Booker T. Washington


The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using
scissors.
		--David Hockney

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
                -- Socrates


God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh.
                -- Voltaire


Social adaptation to a dysfunctional society may be very dangerous.
                -- R.D. Laing


When the people are being beaten with a stick, 
they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick.'
                -- Mikhail Bakunin


Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it
sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes
through their pockets.
                        -- Eddy Peters


The one who relies on authority during a discussion 
does not use his mind but his memory.
		-- Leonardo da Vinci


The conventional view serves to protect us from the
painful job of thinking.
                 -- J. K. Galbraith


When one door of happiness closes, another opens; 
but often we look so long at the closed door 
that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. 
	-Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)


For years I kept showing up at all the right demonstrations 
& singing all the right songs, & one day I realized 
that the world still sucked...
my own life was out of control.  
I'd done all these things to save the world, 
& I couldn't even save myself.  
I understood then that my real work was me,
not the world.
        -- Arlo Guthrie


He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, 
without asking who is for it or
who is against it. 
	-- Henry George


Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
                --Ralph Waldo Emerson


It's no measure of health to be well adjusted 
to a profoundly sick society.
        -- Krishnamurti


Aerodynamics are for people who cannot build engines.
                -- Enzo Ferrari


Any idiot can face a crisis.
It's the day-to-day living that wears you out.
           -- Anton Chekhov


Those who suppress freedom 
always do so in the name of law and order.
                --John V. Lindsay


Liberty means responsibility;
that is why most men dread it.
     --George Bernard Shaw


You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
		-- Norman Douglas


What government is the best? 
That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
		-- Goethe


Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
                -- T. S. Eliot


If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are
still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.
                -Lin Chi


I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my
chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were
great and noble.
                -Helen Keller


The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one
spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is
against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed,
and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is
to be stopped at all.
                -H.L.Mencken


A world without string is chaos.
                ---Ernie Smuntz


You can't be a Real Country unless you have a beer & an airline.
It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear
weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
                                            ---Frank Zappa


It's just a job.
Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.
I beat people up.
		-- Muhammed Ali


Those who beat their swords into ploughshares,
will plough for those who do not.


The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
		--Mahatma Gandhi


Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon
the wall instead of using it.
                --Gordon R. Dickson


You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not
reason himself into in the first place.
                --Jonathan Swift


The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
                --Frank Lloyd Wright


Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.'
That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and
say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'
                --Paul McCartney


It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is
both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is
interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
                --Rod Serling


When choosing between two evils I always like to take the
one I've never tried before.
                --Mae West


When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, 
it seems like two minutes.
When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, 
it seems like two hours. 
That's relativity."
     --Albert Einstein


Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
	-- Stanislaw Lem


Capital punishment is our society's recognition 
of the sanctity of human life.
        --Senator Orrin Hatch, 1988


If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops.
                --Kelvin Throop


A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself
when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute
fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his
position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.
                -- Seneca


If the Nuremberg laws were applied today,
then every Post-War American president
would have to be hanged.
                --Noam Chomsky


I don't regret anything I've ever done,
so long as I enjoyed doing it at the time.
                -- Katherine Hepburn


As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and
maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like
most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
                --Edward Abbey


If you don't like the news, go out & make some of your own.
            ---Scoop Nisker, radio signoff KSAN-FM,
            		San Francisco, 1969


The trouble with people who have broken a habit is that they
usually have the pieces mounted and framed.
                --Ivern Boyett


The best defense against the atom bomb 
is not to be there when it goes off...
	-- British Army Journal 1949


Love, friendship, respect do not unite people 
as much as common hatred for something.
	-- Anton Chekhov


They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
                -- Benjamin Franklin


The hardest thing to learn in life 
is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
		--David Russell


The means of defense against foreign danger historically
have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
		-- James Madison


Only the dead have seen the last of war.
                -- Plato


He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file
has already earned my contempt. 
He has been given a large brain by mistake, 
since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.
		-- Albert Einstein


He who fights with monsters might take care 
lest he thereby become a monster. 
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, 
the abyss gazes also into you.
                - Friedrich Nietzsche


It's not the destination that's important, it's the journey.
                -- Ken Kesey


What experience and history teach is this - 
that nations and governments have never 
learned anything from history, 
or acted upon any lessons 
they might have drawn from it.
                -- G.W. F. Hegel


God has no religion.
   -- Mahatma Gandhi


I disapprove of what you say,
but I will defend to the death
your right to say it.
                -- Voltaire


The Earth is not dying -- it is being killed.
And the people who are killing it 
have names and addresses.
                    -- U. Utah Phillips


Making the simple complicated is commonplace; 
making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, 
that's creativity.
                --Charles Mingus


In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:
it goes on.
                -- Robert Frost


If all the girls who attended the Yale prom 
were laid end to end -- I wouldn't be surprised.
	-- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)


Nearly all men can stand adversity, 
but if you want to test a man's character 
give him power.
        -- Abraham Lincoln


The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; 
the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
-- Ralph W. Stockton


When we lose the right to be different,
we lose the privilege to be free.
                --Charles Evans Hughes


Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
                --Groucho Marx


When you give food to the poor
they call you a saint.
When you ask why the poor have no food,
they call you a communist.
        --Archbishop Helder Camara


Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it's time to pause and reflect.
                --Mark Twain


Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.
        - Georges Braque, French painter


Most people are other people.
Their thoughts are someone else's opinions,
their lives a mimicry,
their passions a quotation.
        --Oscar Wilde


An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
        - Nicholas Murray Butler,
                former president of Columbia University


Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
                --Albert Camus


Literature deals with the ordinary;
the unusual and extraordinary belong to journalism.
                -- James Joyce


Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
                --Oscar Wilde


One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.
                - Crazy Horse (Ta-Sunko-Witko)
                  Oglala Sioux leader


It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
                -- Blaise Pascal


A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
        -- Oscar Wilde


As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual
certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human
life -- so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an
archbishop so you can meet girls.
        --Matt Cartmill, Scientist


Reality is that which,
when you stop believing in it,
doesn't go away.
        -- Philip K. Dick


The reward for conformity is that
everyone likes you except yourself.
 -- Rita Mae Brown, American author


Never play cards with a man called Doc.
Never eat at a place called Moms.
Never sleep with a woman whose troubles
are worse than your own.
        -- Nelson Algren


Knowledge is a process of piling up facts;
wisdom lies in their simplification.
        -- Martin H. Fischer


Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
		--Leonardo da Vinci


"My Country, right or wrong" is a thing no patriot would
think of saying except in a desperate case. 
It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
        -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton, English journalist


Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us
nothing but the shape of the spoon.
        -- E.M. Forster


Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous
elections are held at great cost without issues and with
interchangeable candidates.
                -- Gore Vidal


Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
	--Albert Einstein


It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
	--Edward Demming, Management consultant


Written laws are like spiders' webs; they will catch, it is true,
the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and
powerful.
        - Anacharsis, Scynthian prince of the sixth century BC


Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart
people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean
it.
                --Mark Twain


Doctors pour drugs of which they know little,
to cure diseases of which they know less,
into human beings of which they know nothing.
                -- Voltaire


Be who you are and say what you feel
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.
   -- Theodor Seuss Geisel, "Dr. Seuss"


Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
  -- George Eliot (AKA Mary Ann Edwards), English Novelist


Those who are too smart to engage in politics
are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
        -- Plato (427-347 B.C.)


Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
        --Frank Zappa


It's not true that life is one damn thing after another;
it is one damn thing over and over.
        -- Edna St. Vincent Millay


What progress we are making.
In the Middle Ages they would have burned me.
Now they are content with burning my books.
        --Sigmund Freud


In matters of conscience,
the law of majority has no place.
                --Gandhi


Science is built up of facts,
as a house is built of stones;
but an accumulation of facts is
no more a science
than a heap of stones is a house.
        - Henri Poincare


Today, if something is not worth saying, people sing it.
        - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French dramatist


Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms
with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
                -- Samuel Butler


The right word may be effective,
but no word was ever as effective
as a rightly timed pause.
                -- Mark Twain


Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
        -- Mel Brooks


What is history but a fable agreed upon?
		-- Napolean Bonaparte


Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
		-- A.J. Liebling


Truth is not determined by majority vote.
		--Doug Gwyn


A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
                --Thomas J. Watson


Nothing has yet been said that's not been said before.
                -- Terence, Roman comic dramatist


The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to
hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who
think differently.
		-- Friedrich Nietzche


Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and
proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets
busy on the proof.
	--John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist


The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford 
was when I pushed her down the stairs in 
"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane."
		--Bette Davis


It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; 
happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, 
for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
	-- W. Somerset Maugham, English novelist


Be the change you want to see in the world.
                          -Mahatman Ghandi


History is a pack of lies about events that never happened 
told by people who weren't there.
                               --George Santayana


Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
        --Napoleon Bonaparte


One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
                -- Bertrand Russell


When we walk to the edge of all the light we have.
And take that step into the darkness of the unknown.
We must believe that one of two things will happen...
There will be something solid for us to stand on.
Or, we will be taught to fly.
        -- Zen Proverb


Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
	-- Pablo Picasso


When men sow the wind it is rational 
to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
	--Frederick Douglass


Faith is spiritualized imagination.
	--Henry Ward Beecher, 
	Presbyterian minister (1813-1887)


When you get to the end of all the light you know 
and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, 
faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: 
either you will be given something solid to stand on, 
or you will be taught how to fly.
	---Edward Teller


Once lead this people into war and 
they will forget there ever was 
such a thing as tolerance.
		-- Woodrow Wilson


Those who cannot remember the past 
are condemned to repeat it.
		-- George Santayana


Suburbia is where the developer 
bulldozes out the trees,
then names the streets after them.
		--Bill Vaughan


If you haven't got anything nice to say 
about anybody, come sit next to me.
	-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth