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Diplomacy is about surviving until the next century. Politics is about
surviving until Friday afternoon.
 Adams
Franklin
Better tried by twelve than carried by six.
 Adams
Franklin
We have lingered long enough on the shores of the Cosmic Ocean.
 Adams
Franklin
Let's say your wedding ring falls into your toaster, and when you stick
your hand in to retrieve it, you suffer Pain and Suffering as well as
Mental Anguish. You would sue:
* The toaster manufacturer, for failure to include, in the instructions
 Ali
Muhammad
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
 Alice Walker
Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that
reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away
someone else's cash.
 Alighieri
Dante
Confucius say too much.
 Alinsky
Saul
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
 Alinsky
Saul
Murray and Esther, a middle-aged Jewish couple, are touring Chile.
Murray just got a new camera and is constantly snapping pictures. One day,
without knowing it, he photographs a top-secret military installation. In
an instant, armed troops surroun Alinsky
Saul
The time spent on any item of the agenda [of a finance committee] will be
in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
 Alito
Noelie
Authors (and perhaps columnists) eventually rise to the top of whatever
depths they were once able to plumb.
 Arthur Sullivan
It seems to me that nearly every woman I know wants a man who knows how
to love with authority. Women are simple souls who like simple things,
and one of the simplest is one of the simplest to give. ... Our family
airedale will come clear across t Attorney General William
Historians have now definitely established that Juan Cabrillo, discoverer
of California, was not looking for Kansas, thus setting a precedent that
continues to this day.
 Aurelius
Marcus
What we wish, that we readily believe.
 Aurelius
Sextus
He that teaches himself has a fool for a master.
 Balliett
Whitney
You tread upon my patience.
 Barker
Clive
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
 Ben Franklin
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
 Berlioz
Hector
Maybe ain't ain't so correct, but I notice that lots of folks who ain't
using ain't ain't eatin' well.
 Billings
Josh
Nothing succeeds like success.
 Billings
Josh
It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
 Billings
Josh
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right
keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
 Billings
Josh
A is for Apple.
 Billings
Josh
Never take a resume seriously. Resumes only make money for the
people who write the resumes. No resume ever tells an employer how many
times a job applicant has had the clap.
Why, indeed, would anyone hire a person based on a resume written
by a  Billings
Josh
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals.
To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
 Billings
Josh
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
 Blake
William
"MOKE DAT YIGARETTE"
 Blake
William
You can fool all the people all of the time if the advertising is right
and the budget is big enough.
 Blake
William
I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs.
 Blake
William
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
 Blake
William
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
 Blish
James
A yawn is a silent shout.
 Bon John Dillinger on
Once is happenstance,
Twice is coincidence,
Three times is enemy action.
 Bowles
Colin
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed
to be doing at the moment.
 Bowles
Colin
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
 Brilliant
Ashleigh
Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there,
and a lot of bull inbetween.
 Brilliant
Ashleigh
The best you get is an even break.
 Brilliant
Ashleigh
A diplomat's life consists of three things: protocol, Geritol, and alcohol.
 Brilliant
Ashleigh
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder
aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
 Brilliant
Ashleigh
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to
stick to one thing till it gets there.
 Broughton Philip
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
 Buckley
William F.
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ...
in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent
to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who
have not yet reached their  Buckley
William F.
"MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into
the smallest amount of thoughts."
 Burgess
Philip Larkin on Anthony
Every cloud engenders not a storm.
 Burroughs
William
After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.
 Burroughs
William S.
Concerning the war in Vietnam, Senator George Aiken of Vermount noted
in January, 1966, "I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need
more owls."
 Caesar
Gaius Julius
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
 Caesar
Gaius Julius
Luck can't last a lifetime, unless you die young.
 Caesar
Gaius Julius
Serfs up!
 Caesar
Julius
How should they answer?
 Callimachus
Don't vote  Carlin
George
So little time, so little to do.
 Carpenter
Elizabeth
In my end is my beginning.
 Catlin
Wynn
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
 Celine
Louis-Ferdinand
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent
upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a
visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is
informing, stimulating and ennobling.
 Channing
William Ellery
Use an accordion. Go to jail.
 Chaplin
Charlie
We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if only words were
taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things
themselves.
 Charles Darling
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably
not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
 Charles Darling
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles
as if she laid an asteroid.
 Charlie
Crazy
Governor Tarkin. I should have expected to find you holding Vader's
leash. I thought I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board.
 Chevalier
Maurice
The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie.
 Cicero
Marcus Tullius
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.
 Cicero
Marcus Tullius
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
 Clarence Darrow to William
Alea iacta est.
[The die is cast]
 Clifton Fadiman
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
 Coo Alistair
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
 Cooke
Alistair
The streets were dark with something more than night.
 Cooke
Alistair
Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues
of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping houses, and the blessed sun himself
a fair, hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst
be so superfluous to Coolidge
Calvin
I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were all
these aisles and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these
kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and
I wasn't tempted to buy Coolidge
Calvin
[He] took me into his library and showed me his books, of which he had
a complete set.
 Coolidge
Calvin
He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry
attacks democracy itself.
 Coolidge
Calvin
Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.
 Coolidge
Calvin
... difference of opinion is advantagious in religion. The several sects
perform the office of a common censor morum over each other. Is uniformity
attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the
introduction of Christianity,  Coolidge
Calvin
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even
where there is no river.
 Coolidge
Calvin
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
 Cromwell
Oliver
"Earth is a great, big funhouse without the fun."
 Dali
Salvador
"There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial:
both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to
talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him
during the trial."
 Dane
Franklin K.
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.
That is the point that must be reached.
 Darling Charles
L'hazard ne favorise que l'esprit prepare.
 Dick
Philip K.
You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for
freedom and liberty.
 Dillinger
John
Political history is far too criminal a subject to be a fit thing to
teach children.
 Disraeli
Benjamin
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
 Disraeli
Benjamin
"Is it just me, or does anyone else read `bible humpers' every time
someone writes `bible thumpers?'
 Disraeli
Benjamin
We're living in a golden age. All you need is gold.
 Disraeli
Benjamin
War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.
 Disraeli
Benjamin
A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than
he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men
favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter
facts of life in bandages of self-illus Disraeli Benjamin
A priest asked: What is Fate, Master?
And the Master answered:
It is that which gives a beast of burden its reason for existence.
It is that which men in former times had to bear upon their backs.
It is that which has caused nations to build bywa Donatus
Aelius
Public use of any portable music system is a virtually guaranteed indicator
of sociopathic tendencies.
 Elder
Pliny the
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
 Eliot
George
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
 Eliot
George
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations
of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
 Eliot
T.S.
It looks like it's up to me to save our skins. Get into that garbage chute,
flyboy!
 Eliot T.S.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do
what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with
them while they do it.
 Eliot T.S.
Who dat who say "who dat" when I say "who dat"?
 Eliot T.Sessay
The trouble is, there is an endless supply of White Men, but there has
always been a limited number of Human Beings.
 Elizabeth I
Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future.
 Elizabeth John Greenway
It is enough to make one sympathize with a tyrant for the determination
of his courtiers to deceive him for their own personal ends...
 Elliot
To add insult to injury.
 Ellis
Havelock
"Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.
 Ellis
Havelock
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a
fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
 Ellis Nancy
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
 Ellison
Harlan
If reporters don't know that truth is plural, they ought to be lawyers.
 Ellison
Harlan
My tears stuck in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked.
 Erlich
Paul
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
 Fadiman
Clifton
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height
but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble
than to be walked upon.
 Fadiman
Clifton
A political man can have as his aim the realization of freedom,
but he has no means to realize it other than through violence.
 Fadiman
Clifton
She ran the gamut of emotions from 'A' to 'B'.
 Fadiman Clifton
The superfluous is very necessary.
 Faulkner
William
A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.
 Faulkner
William
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once.
 Fee
Elizabeth
Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but
when there is no longer anything to take away.
 Francisc Colin Bowles San
How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?
 Franklin
B.
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned
things is ample.
 Franklin
B.
The trouble with superheros is what to do between phone booths.
 Franklin
B.
Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
 Franklin
B.
Thompson, if he is to be believed, has sampled the entire rainbow of
legal and illegal drugs in heroic efforts to feel better than he does.
As for the truth about his health: I have asked around about it. I
am told that he appears to be strong and Franklin
B.
Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your
obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night
for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and hounds and
traps, his race survives Franklin
B.
One man's brain plus one other will produce one half as many ideas as one
man would have produced alone. These two plus two more will produce half
again as many ideas. These four plus four more begin to represent a
creative meeting, and the ratio c Franklin
Ben
They use different words for things in America.
For instance they say elevator and we say lift.
They say drapes and we say curtains.
They say president and we say brain damaged git.
 Franklin
Ben
If I were a grave-digger or even a hangman, there are some people I could
work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
 Franklin
Ben
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
 Franklin
Benjamin
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
 Franklin
Benjamin
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
 Franklin
Benjamin
Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other
forms that have been tried from time to time.
 Franklin
Benjamin
I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the
reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if
I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out.
 Franklin
Benjamin
...He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither
does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to
combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is
self-propagating.
 Franklin
Benjamin
God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
 Franklin
Benjamin
One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at
the stake while the votes were being counted.
 Franklin
Benjamin
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.
 Franklin Benjamin
Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
 Franklin Benjamin
My band career ended late in my senior year when John Cooper and I threw my
amplifier out the dormitory window. We did not act in haste. First we
checked to make sure the amplifier would fit through the frame, using the
belt from my bathrobe to meas G. Gordon Liddy's
Let sleeping dogs lie.
 Galilei
Galileo
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve
people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
 Garrison
William Lloyd
Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.
 Gibran
Kahlil
Interesting poll results reported in today's New York Post: people on the
street in midtown Manhattan were asked whether they approved of the US
invasion of Grenada. Fifty-three percent said yes; 39 percent said no;
and 8 percent said "Gimme a quart Gibran
Kahlil
How is the world ruled, and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to
journalists, and they believe what they read.
 Gibran
Kahlil
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
 Gilliam
E.A.
"Every morning, I get up and look through the 'Forbes' list of the
richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work"
 Gordon
Karen Elizabeth
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
 Halsey
Admiral William
Things are not always what they seem.
 Hazlitt
William
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve
immortality through not dying.
 Hellman
Lillian
"Somewhere", said Father Vittorini, "did Blake not speak of the
Machineries of Joy? That is, did not God promote environments, then
intimidate these Natures by provoking the existence of flesh, toy men and
women, such as are we all? And thus happi Heraclitus
A word to the wise is enough.
 Hodder-Williams
Christopher
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 Holmes
Oliver Wendell
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
 Holmes
Oliver Wendell
Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
 Huntingd Collis P.
The problem that we thought was a problem was, indeed, a problem, but
not the problem we thought was the problem.
 James
Clive
We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength. But there was
also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a
French restaurant. [...]
I could not tell the girl about the woman of the tollway, of her milk
w James
William
Lay off the muses, it's a very tough dollar.
 James
William
One of my favorite jokes, a telling commentary on Jewish mothers' capacity
to lay on guilt, involves the mother who gave her son two neckties on Chanuka.
The boy hurried into his bedroom, ripped off the tie he was wearing,
put on one of the ties his Jim Starlin
Among all savage beasts, none is found so harmful as woman.
 Jim Starlin
Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything.
Some think it is the voice of God.
 John Lightfoot
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
 Joke
The Killing
I steal.
 Jones
Franklin P.
Termiter's argument that God is His own grandmother generated a surprising
amount of controversy among Church leaders, who on the one hand considered
the argument unsupported by scripture but on the other hand were unwilling
to risk offending God's g Jones
Franklin P.
I hate dying.
 Jones
Franklin P.
... but as records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be
proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge
to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women
were convicted of witch Jones
Franklin P.
Beggars should be no choosers.
 Joplin
Janis
The Soviet Union, which has complained recently about alleged anti-Soviet
themes in American advertising, lodged an official protest this week
against the Ford Motor Company's new campaign: "Hey you stinking, fat
Russian, get off my Ford Escort."
 Juliana Queen
The Bible says that woman was the last thing God made. Evidently He made
her on Saturday night. She reveals his fatigue.
 Julius Caesar
Indeed, the first noble truth of Buddhism, usually translated as
`all life is suffering,' is more accurately rendered `life is filled
with a sense of pervasive unsatisfactoriness.'
 Juvenalis
Decimus Junius
I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts
already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
 Juvenalis
Decimus Junius
For there are moments when one can neither think nor feel. And if one can
neither think nor feel, she thought, where is one?
 Kahlil Gibran
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a
lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
 Kipling
Rudyard
Well, don't worry about it... It's nothing.
 Kirk
Lisa
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
 Larsen Dalglish
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
 LeBoutillier
J.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
 LeoGrande William
There's no such thing as an original sin.
 Leslie Stephen
A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet.
 Leslie Stephen
It is often the case that the man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best
judge of one.
 Lester
Julius
His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred
to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never
claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circum-
stances being what they Li Woman's
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia
because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers
couldn't compete successfully with poets.
 Li Mark Twain
O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
 Lie
Trygve
When we jumped into Sicily, the units became separated, and I couldn't find
anyone. Eventually I stumbled across two colonels, a major, three captains,
two lieutenants, and one rifleman, and we secured the bridge. Never in the
history of war have s Liebling
A.J.
Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
 Liebling A.J.
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism
to decadence without touching civilization.
 Liepmann
Hans
The only promotion rules I can think of are that a sense of shame is to
be avoided at all costs and there is never any reason for a hustler to
be less cunning than more virtuous men. Oh yes ... whenever you think
you've got something really great, a Lieutenant Kermit Tyler
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
 Lilly
John
The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first
half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and
pleasant, the second half still balmy and quite pleasant for those who
hadn't heard the scream at all, but not c Lincoln
A.
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause,
while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
 Lincoln
Abraham
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the
other is to read Pope.
 Lincoln
Abraham
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
 Lincoln
Abraham
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that
you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
 Lincoln
Abraham
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather
a new wearer of clothes.
 Lincoln
Abraham
The [Ford Foundation] is a large body of money completely surrounded by
people who want some.
 Lincoln
Abraham
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing - and that was
the closest our country has ever been to being even.
 Lincoln
Abraham
Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
 Lincoln
Abraham
All phone calls are obscene.
 Lindbergh
Charles
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
 Ling
James J.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
Are of imagination all compact...
 Lippmann
Walter
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
 Lippmann
Walter
The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.
 Little
Mary Wilson
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying
as an income tax refund.
 Little
Rich
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
 Longworth
Alice Roosevelt
Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some
ordinance under which you can be booked.
 Longworth
Alice Roosevelt
According to the Rand McNally Places-Rated Almanac, the best place to live in
America is the city of Pittsburgh. The city of New York came in twenty-fifth.
Here in New York we really don't care too much. Because we know that we could
beat up their  Longworth
Alice Roosevelt
Many a long dispute between divines may thus be abridged: It is so. It
is not so. It is so. It is not so.
 Machiavelli
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
 Machiavelli
Niccolo
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
 Man
Little Big
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
 Marcus Tullius Cicero
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for
the people.
 Mari Clive James on
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads
lead down.
 McCarthy
Charlie
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles
in the road.
 McCarthy
Charlie
If what they've been doing hasn't solved the problem, tell them to
do something else.
 McCorkle
Julia Norton
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid,
stable business.
 Melvin Belli
It is Mr. Mellon's credo that $200,000,000 can do no wrong. Our
offense consists in doubting it.
 Miller.
Olin
He jests at scars who never felt a wound.
 Moliere
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
 Morris William
The world has many unintentionally cruel mechanisms that are not
designed for people who walk on their hands.
 Moss
Stirling
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality
of functions performed by private citizens.
 North
Lt. Col. Ollie
Zero Mostel: That's it baby! When you got it, flaunt it! Flaunt it!
 North
Oliver
Age before beauty; and pearls before swine.
 Novem The Realist
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of
the beholder.
 Oliver
The politician is someone who deals in man's problems of adjustment.
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
 Oliver
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They
would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
 Orton
William
Fear and loathing, my man, fear and loathing.
 Palindromist
The Mad
Death is a spirit leaving a body, sort of like a shell leaving the nut behind.
 Paul Tillich German
Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long.
 Penn William
I dote on his very absence.
 Perlis
Alan J.
Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin.
 Philip Hale Boston
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first
thought of.
 Philips
Emo
TO THOSE OF YOU WHO DESIRE IT, I GRANT YOU MADRAK'S BLESSING:
Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care
what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you
may have done or failed to do which requires for Phillips
Emo
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
 Phillips
Utah
Certainly the game is rigged.
Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win.
 Player
Willis
By the middle 1880's, practically all the roads except those in
the South, were of the present standard gauge. The southern roads were
still five feet between rails.
It was decided to change the gauge of all southern roads to standard,
in one day Professor
English
"And Bezel saideth unto Sham: `Sham,' he saideth, `Thou shalt goest
unto the town of Begorrah, and there thou shalt fetcheth unto thine
bosom 35 talents, and also shalt thou fetcheth a like number of cubits,
provideth that they are nice and fresh.'"
 Publilius
Everyone is in the best seat.
 Publius Ovidius Naso
There is a secret person undamaged within every individual.
 Publius Terentius Afer
It's not so hard to lift yourself by your bootstraps once you're off the ground.
 Publius Terentius Afer
There is no doubt that my lawyer is honest. For example, when he
filed his income tax return last year, he declared half of his salary
as 'unearned income.'
 Publius Terentius Afer
Imagine what we can imagine!
 Publius Terentius Afer
To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects
but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own.
 Publius Vergilius Maro
A sinking ship gathers no moss.
 Publius Vergilius Maro
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
 Publius Vergilius Maro
I would like the government to do all it can to mitigate, then, in
understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for the common good,
our tasks will be solved.
 Publius Vergilius Maro
The Worst Musical Trio
There are few bad musicians who have a chance to give a recital at
a famous concert hall while still learning the rudiments of their
instrument. This happened about thirty years ago to the son of a Rumanian
gentleman who was Pulitzer
Joseph
A man's house is his castle.
 Richard
Little
The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The
terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
 Rockwell
George Lincoln
"What's this? Trix? Aunt! Trix? You? You're after the prize! What
is it?" He picked up the box and studied the back. "A glow-in-the-dark
squid! Have you got it out of there yet?" He tilted the box, angling the
little colored balls of cereal Roosevelt
Franklin D.
He who fears the unknown may one day flee from his own backside.
 Roosevelt
Franklin D.
It was a female that drove me to drink and I didn't even have the kindness
to thank her.
 Roosevelt
Franklin Delano
There is nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the
ocean level wouldn't cure.
 Salinger
J. D.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
 Sandra Gotlieb
A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
 Schlafly
Phyllis
Small things make base men proud.
 Secundus
Gaius Plinius
Too much is just enough.
 Serling
Rod
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that
the end justifies the means.
 Shake William
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
 Shake William
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My
opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller
that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
 Shake William
I try to keep an open mind, but not so open that my brains fall out.
 Shake William
The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen
in the image of Englishmen.
 Shake William
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and
the lash.
 Shake William
When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog along to see
the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain
relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.
 Shake William
Well begun is half done.
 Shake William
To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North
Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it.
 Shake William
Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his
roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the
forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind
the railroad yards."
 Shake William
Just as most issues are seldom black or white, so are most good solutions
seldom black or white. Beware of the solution that requires one side to be
totally the loser and the other side to be totally the winner. The reason
there are two sides to be Shake William
My dear People.
My dear Bagginses and Boffins, and my dear Tooks and Brandybucks,
and Grubbs, and Chubbs, and Burrowses, and Hornblowers, and Bolgers,
Bracegirdles, Goodbodies, Brockhouses and Proudfoots. Also my good
Sackville Bagginses that I w Shakes William
Anything anybody can say about America is true.
 Shakes William
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
 Shakesp William
Our sires' age was worse that our grandsires'.
We their sons are more worthless than they:
so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.
 Shakesp William
Out of sight is out of mind.
 Shakesp William
A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on
Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
 Shakespear William
 Shakespear William
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before
the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours."
 Shakespear William
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
 Shakespear William
To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness.
 Shakespear William
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is a constant, but nowadays the
illiterates can read.
 Shakespeare
William
Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
 Shakespeare William
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
 Shakespeare William
The course of true anything never does run smooth.
 Shakespeare William
He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
 Shakespeare William
Either I'm dead or my watch has stopped.
 Shakespeare William
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
 Shakespeare William
I'm glad I was not born before tea.
 Shakespeare William
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's
read by persons who move their lips when the're reading to themselves.
 Shakespeare William
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
 Shakespeare William
No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he had only had good
intentions. He had money as well.
 Shakespeare William
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
 Shakespeare William
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
 Shakespeare William
If you don't strike oil in twenty minutes, stop boring.
 Shakespeare William
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
 Shakespeare William
Roumanian-Yiddish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler.
 Shakespeare William
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and
ask for it back the when it begins to rain.
 Shakespeare William
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come
into my neighborhood after dark.
 Shakespeare William
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman
Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church,
nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church.
 Shaw Pygmali
It is easier to be a "humanitarian" than to render your own country its
proper due; it is easier to be a "patriot" than to make your community a
better place to live in; it is easier to be a "civic leader" than to treat
your own family with loving un Stalin
Joseph
Never buy from a rich salesman.
 Stalin
Joseph
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of
intelligence.
 Stalin
Joseph
Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and
long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his
pain and his aloneness without regret?
 Stalin
Joseph
"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western
religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of
Western science."
 Stephen
Leslie
He knows not how to know who knows not also how to unknow.
 Strachey
Lionel
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out
twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
 Syrus
Publilius
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
 Syrus
Publilius
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
 Syrus
Publilius
I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending
their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to
buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
 Syrus
Publilius
per year.
 Syrus
Publilius
What I tell you three times is true.
 Syrus
Publilius
Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails,
whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through
the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush!
 Syrus
Publilius
There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.
 Syrus
Publilius
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
 Syrus
Publilius
A snake lurks in the grass.
 Syrus
Publilius
A good scapegoat is hard to find.
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
 Syrus
Publilius
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
 Syrus
Publius
"I am not sure what this is, but an `F' would only dignify it."
 T.S. Eliot
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World
War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
 Taylor
Elizabeth
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's
incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."
 The Outer Limits
What kind of sordid business are you on now? I mean, man, whither
goest thou? Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
 Tiselius
Arne
Fortune Documents the Great Legal Decisions:
We think that we may take judicial notice of the fact that the term "bitch"
may imply some feeling of endearment when applied to a female of the canine
species but that it is seldom, if ever, so used whe Titus Livius
If God is One, what is bad?
 Tomlin
Lily
Best Mistakes In Films
In his "Filmgoer's Companion", Mr. Leslie Halliwell helpfully lists
four of the cinema's greatest moments which you should get to see if at all
possible.
In "Carmen Jones", the camera tracks with Dorothy Dandridge down a
st Tomlin
Lily
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
 Tomlin
Lily
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an
autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
 Tomlin
Lily
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
 Tomlin
Lily
It's from Casablanca. I've been waiting all my life to use that line.
 Tomlin
Lily
Recently deceased blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan "comes to" after
his death. He sees Jimi Hendrix sitting next to him, tuning his guitar.
"Holy cow," he thinks to himself, "this guy is my idol." Over at the
microphone, about to sing, are Jim Mo Tomlin
Lily
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
 Trillin
Calvin
All of us should treasure his Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a
Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks,
tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks:
"Just lie down on the floor and keep calm Trilling
Lionel
As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions
between sexes, races or classes, there will be forms of science whose
main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions.
 Wagner
Lichty &
The time was the 19th of May, 1780. The place was Hartford, Connecticut.
The day has gone down in New England history as a terrible foretaste of
Judgement Day. For at noon the skies turned from blue to grey and by
mid-afternoon had blackened over s Walinsky
Adam
There is a limit to the admiration we may hold for a man who spends
his waking hours poking the contents of chickens with a stick.
 War Oliver
If they were so inclined, they could impeach him because they don't like
his necktie.
 Wellington
The Duke of
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
 Wellington Duke
My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
 Wells
J. Wellington
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a
fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
 Wells
J. Wellington
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
 Whalen
Philip
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes
a-begging.
 White
William Allen
Lassie looked brilliant, in part because the farm family she
lived with was made up of idiots. Remember? One of them was always
getting pinned under the tractor, and Lassie was always rushing back to
the farmhouse to alert the other ones. She'd w White
William Allen
Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.
 Willard F. Libby
All I kin say is when you finds yo'self wanderin' in a peach orchard,
ya don't go lookin' for rutabagas.
 William
Life is the living you do, Death is the living you don't do.
 William Gibson
Then, gently touching my face, she hesitated for a moment as her incredible
eyes poured forth into mine love, joy, pain, tragedy, acceptance, and peace.
"'Bye for now," she said warmly.
 William S. Paley
Well, the handwriting is on the floor.
 William Shakespeare
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty
Often have a share in their misfortunes.
 William Shakespeare
My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.
 William Shakespeare
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
 William Shakespeare
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
 William Shakespeare
If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women
you've got in the house.
 Williams
H.H.
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.
 Williams
Robin
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market
award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal
gesture by the individual to himself.
 Williams
Tennessee
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
 Williams Robin
Life is too short to be taken seriously.
 Williamson
Ren'e de Visme
Lo! Men have become the tool of their tools.
 Williamson
Nicol
"...The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes'!"
"Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to
feel interested.
"No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little
vexed. "That's what the name is called. The nam Williamson Dr. Paul
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
 Willie Sutton
New Jersey is not the armpit of the nation; it's the asshole of the universe.
 Yeats
William Butler
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
 Yutang
Lin
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
 Zwart
Elizabeth Clarkson
Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere.
Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain.
From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
 proverb
Italian
There's small choice in rotten apples.
 proverb
Polish
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Samuel
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