02-17-2011, 12:00 AM
"The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is." Mary Pettibone Poole
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." Plato
I had a perfectly wonderful evening, but not tonight. Groucho
He had delusions of adequacy.
He loves nature despite its cruelty to him.
Some cause happiness where ever they go; others whenever they go. Wilde
"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." - Winston Churchill
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?" - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend... if you have one." -- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one." - Winston Churchill, in reply
"All honors wounds are self-inflicted." Andrew Carnegie
"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost." Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher
"I pray that our heavenly father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have lain so costly a sacrifice on the altar of freedom." President Abraham Lincoln as quoted in the movie Saving Private Ryan
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of [their own] folly is to fill the world with fools." Herbert Spencer
"There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra 3 years in the geriatric ward." John Mortimer
"Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." Benjamin Franklin
"A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular and what no just government should refuse to rest on inference." Thomas Jefferson
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." Thomas Paine
"Choose your enemy well, for he is who you will become." old Hebrew adage
John Wilkes (to the Earl of Sandwich):
- Egad sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox. -
Earl of Sandwich replied:
- That will depend, my lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress. -
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." Plato
I had a perfectly wonderful evening, but not tonight. Groucho
He had delusions of adequacy.
He loves nature despite its cruelty to him.
Some cause happiness where ever they go; others whenever they go. Wilde
"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." - Winston Churchill
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?" - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend... if you have one." -- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one." - Winston Churchill, in reply
"All honors wounds are self-inflicted." Andrew Carnegie
"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost." Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher
"I pray that our heavenly father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have lain so costly a sacrifice on the altar of freedom." President Abraham Lincoln as quoted in the movie Saving Private Ryan
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of [their own] folly is to fill the world with fools." Herbert Spencer
"There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra 3 years in the geriatric ward." John Mortimer
"Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." Benjamin Franklin
"A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular and what no just government should refuse to rest on inference." Thomas Jefferson
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." Thomas Paine
"Choose your enemy well, for he is who you will become." old Hebrew adage
John Wilkes (to the Earl of Sandwich):
- Egad sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox. -
Earl of Sandwich replied:
- That will depend, my lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress. -