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Place a short line of text here. This can help with your search engine rankings. > What lies behind us and what lies before us, are only small matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson < > Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe < > If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow < > If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet < > When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. - Edgar Watson Howe < > Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. - Edwin Way Teale (Circle of the Seasons) < > True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. - Dave Tyson Gentry < > No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it. - Henry Ward Beecher < > Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot < > The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr. < > Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. - Bernice Johnson Reagon < > I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude. - Judith M. Knowlton < > Those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberties for a little order, will lose both and deserve neither. - Benjamin Franklin < > Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. - Eric Hoffer < > Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. - Eric Hoffer < > When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. - Anthony J. D'Angelo < > Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains. - Ralph Waldo Emerson < > Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein < > Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. - Marie Beyon Ray < > It's not that chocolates are a substitute for love. Love is a substitute for chocolate. Chocolate is, let's face it, far more reliable than a man. - Miranda Ingram < > Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci < > Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. - Marcus Aurelius < > Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas A. Edison < > I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. - Isaac Asimov < > Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself. - Alice H. Rice < > Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle; rather a great reminder of just how strong true love can be. - Unknown < > Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead < > Books are the shoes with which we tread the footsteps of great minds. - Unknown < > Love is the energy of the soul. Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot be healed by love. There is nothing but love. - Gary Zukav < > Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. - Roger Lewin < > Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. - Pythagoras < > The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them. - Patti LaBelle < > I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind. - May Sarton < > Hope is like a road in the country: there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. - Lin Yutang < > Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you. Not because they are nice, but because you are. - Unknown Source < > Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day. - Sanskrit Proverb < > Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. - Pierce Harris < > Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long after he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money - but long on hugs. - Lazarus Long < > Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. - Lazarus Long < > Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. - Lazarus Long < > A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a shp, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - Lazarus Long < > Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances. - Bruce Barton < > Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. - John Homer Miller < > A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Herm Albright < > A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. - Scottish Proverb < > Change is inevitable, except from vending machines. - anonymous < > No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. - J. Michael Straczynski ("The Long Twilight Struggle" in Babylon 5) < > The Babylon project was our last, best hope for peace. .. It failed. .. But in the year of the Shadow war it became something greater: our last, best hope .. for victory. The year is 2260, the place: Babylon 5." - Commander Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" < > Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. - Albert Schweitzer < > A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being opened, the marvels or the abysses that it contains, or the line that seems to have been written for me alone. In this respect the writer is not different from any other human being: whatever we say or do can have far-reaching consequences. - Marguerite Yourcenar (With Open Eyes) < > The quality of the moment is more important than the number of our days. - Rod McKuen < > The man who says I told you so is making an excuse for not expressing his position clearly in the first place. - Rod McKuen < > You can widen your life by yourself, but to deepen it you need a friend. Each encounter that becomes a friendship turns into a lifeline. One can never have too many, only too many to properly take care of. - Rod McKuen < > Autumn is the time when seasons merge because of bare necessity. - Rod McKuen < > Hatch a dream and then believe it. - Rod McKuen < > You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London < > Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. - John Wilmont < > No elected body is the country, we are the country. You and me. Us. It can only stay that way as long as we care to keep it so. - Rod McKuen < > The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel. - Tax, the Series < > The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier. - Bill Gates < > Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? - Clifford Stoll < > 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 < > Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. (Maggie Thatcher) < > Never attribute to malice that which can satisfactorily be explained by incompetence. (N. Bonaparte) < > Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. (Joseph Heller) < > Thought: why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage. (Woody Allen) < > Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Albert Einstein) < > Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master. (George Washington) < > The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. (Albert Einstein) < > It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. (Mark Twain) < > In the long run, we are all dead. (John Maynard Keynes) < > There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. (Robert Byrne) < > Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. (Robert Byrne) < > America is a mistake, a giant mistake. (Sigmund Freud) < > If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. (Earl Wilson) < > Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. (Anthony Burgess) < > Never confuse motion with action. (Benjamin Franklin) < > Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. (John F. Kennedy) < > Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. (Malcolm X) < > This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown aside with great force. (Dorothy Parker) < > The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. (Lily Tomlin) < > Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair. (Judith Stern) < > Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. (Muhammad Ali) < > Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. (John Kenneth Galbraith) < > Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others? (Martin Luther King) < > We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. (Haida Indian saying) < > An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. (Mahatma Gandhi) < > In waking a tiger, use a long stick. (Mao Tse-tung) < > Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. (Erma Bombeck) < > What you do is of little signifigance. But it is very important that you do it. (Mahatma Gandhi) < > Never mistake motion for action. (Ernest Hemingway) < > Never try and teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. (Lazerus Long) < > Time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies like a banana. (Groucho Marx) < > I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise. (Noel Coward) < > Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. (Dorothy Parker) < > Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket. (Mark Twain) < > Biography lends to death a new terror. (Oscar Wilde) < > Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. (Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower) < > When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. (Abraham Maslow) < > Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. (Chinese Proverb) < > I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on. (Roseanne Barr) < > Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. (Marie Curie) < > Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. (Phyllis Diller) < > Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. (Buddha) < > The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. (Chinese Proverb) < > Never judge a book by it's movie. (J.W. Eagan) < > Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. (William Faulkner) < > 640K ought to be enough for anybody. (Bill Gates) < > There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. (Ken Olson) < > You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. (Malcom X) < > If you spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. (Lin Yutang) < > Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Napoleon Bonaparte) < > The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. (unknown) < > If you are going through hell, keep going. (Winston Churchill) < > If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. (Alice Roosevelt Longworth) < > When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. (Mae West) < > There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Oscar Wilde) < > I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. -- Frank Sinatra < > The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober. -- William Butler Yeats < > An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. -- Ernest Hemingway < > Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. -- Ernest Hemingway < > Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time. -- Catherine Zandonella < > Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. -- Ambrose Bierce < > Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol. -- Anonymous < > Drinking provides a beautiful excuse to pursue the one activity that truly gives me pleasure -- hooking up with fat, hairy girls. -- Ross Levy/John Beecher Jr. < > A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. -- W.C. Fields < > What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? -- W.C. Fields < > When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. -- Henny Youngman < > Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life. -- Michelle Mastrolacasa < > I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy. -- Tom Waits < > I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a ... brain operation.-- Randee of the Redwoods < > 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? -- Stephen Wright < > When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let's all get drunk and go to heaven! -- Brian O'Rourke < > You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and 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 < > Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. -- Winston Churchill < > Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. -- Benjamin Franklin < > If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose. -- Jack Handy < > Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. -- Dave Barry < > The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. -- Humphrey Bogart < > Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. -- Kaiser Wilhelm < > Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. -- Dave Barry < > All right, Brain, I don't like you and you don't like me -- so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer. -- Homer Simpson < > If it was so, it might be; and if it were so,it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. -- Lewis Carrol < > God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. - Albert Einstein < > Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. -- Publilius Syrus < > An engineer thinks that his equations are an approximation to reality. A physicist thinks reality is an approximation to his equations. A mathematician doesn't care. --Anonymous < > The point of philosophy is to start with something simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. -- Bertrand Russell - "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism" < > Experience is the worst teacher. It gives you the test first and the instructions afterwards. --Anonymous < > Since we haven't cracked time yet, I have run out of time. Thank you for listening. --Steven Hawking - the end of the public lecture "Space and Time Warps" < > The local laws that physical fields obey are time symmetric, or more precisely, CPT invariant. Thus the observed difference between the past and the future must come from the boundary conditions of the universe. --Steven Hawking < > ..when I first heard about [the Thomas precession], it seemed unbelievable that a relativistic effect could give a factor of 2 instead of something of order v/c... Even the cognoscenti of relativity theory (Einstein included!) were quite surprised. --Uhlenbeck < > La théorie, c'est quand on sait tout et que rien ne fonctionne. La pratique, c'est quand tout fonctionne et que personne ne sait pourquoi. Ici, nous avons réuni théorie et pratique : Rien ne fonctionne... et personne ne sait pourquoi ! -Albert Einstein < > "Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!" And if you were my wife, I would drink it! -- Winston Churchill < > "Mr. Churchill, you're drunk!" Yes, I am; and you are ugly. But tomorrow, I shall be sober - Winston Churchill < > A Boston man is the east wind made flesh - Thomas Appleton < > A bow-shot from her bower-eaves, He rode between the barley-sheaves, The sun came dazzling thro the leaves And flamed upon the brazen graves Of bold Sir Lancelot - Alfred Tennyson < > A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedence, loyalty, and theimportance of turning around three times before lying down - Robert Benchley < > A brain is known by its fruits - H G Wells < > A brain of feathers and a heart of lead - Alexander Pope < > A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying "Long Time, No See" - Phyllis Battelle < > A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward. < > A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business - Henry Ford < > A candy store is a good thing in some ways. You work for yourself and the work is steady. The profits are small but they're there, and we went through the entire period of the Great Depression without missing a meal and without ever having to spend one moment's anxiety that my father might lose his job and that we might all be on the bread lines - Isaac Asimov < > A caress is better than a career - Elisabeth Marbury < > A cask of wine works more miracles than a church full of saints - Proverb < > A castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair - John Bunyan < > A cat has nine lives - Proverb < > A cat may look at a king - Proverb < > A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized - Fred John Allen < > A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism - Carl Sagan < > A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to - Granville Hicks (1901-1982) < > A censor's job is to stick his noes into other people's business - LA Times Syndicate < > A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence - Idries Shah < > A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled - Thomas Hood < > A chain is no stronger than its weakest link - Proverb < > A champion views resistance as a gift of energy - Michael J. Gelb < > A chaste woman ought not to dye her hair yellow - Menander 342-291 BC < > A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong - Thomas Szasz < > A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer - J Abbott < > A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled - James Baldwin < > A child deserves the maximum respect; if you ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years - Decimus Juvenal < > A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five - Groucho Marx < > A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back - Arthur Miller < > A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday - Thomas R Ybarra < > A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election - Bill Vaughan < > A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say - Italo Calvino < > A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read - Mark Twain (1835-1910) < > A Clerk ther was of Oxenford also, That un-to logik hadde longe y-go - Geoffrey Chaucer < > A client is fain to hire a lawyer to keep from the injury of other lawyers - as Christians that travel in Turkey are forced to hire Janissaries, to protect them from the insolencies of other Turks - Samuel Butler < > A coloured man can tell, in five seconds dead, whether a white man likes him or not. If the white man says he does, he is instantly - and usually quite rightly - mistrusted - Colin MacInnes < > A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious - Will Rogers < > A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled - Sir Thomas Cocks < > A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours - Milton Berle < > A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour - Elbert Hubbard < > A committee is an animal with four back legs - John Le Carre < > A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools - Douglas Adams < > A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity - Robert Heinlein < > A completely planned economy ensures that when no bacon is delivered, no eggs are delivered at the same time - Leo Frain < > A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece - Ludwig Erhard < > A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development - Hugh Kingsmill < > A conference is a gathering of important people who single can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done - Fred Allen < > A Conservative Government is an organised hypocrisy - Benjamin Disraeli < > A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time - Alfred E. Wiggam < > A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run - Elbert Hubbard, "Epigrams" < > A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits - Woodrow Wilson < > A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk - Franklin D. Roosevelt < > A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead - Leo C. Rosten < > A Conservative is someone who will not look at the new moon, out of respect for that institution, the old one - Douglas Jerrold < > A constant guest is never welcome - Proverb < > A Constitution should be short and obscure - Anon < > A conviction that what is called fashionable life was compound of frivolity, of fraud and vice - Disraeli < > A corruption of moral usually follows a profanation of the Sabbath - Blackstone < > A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs - German Proverb < > A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone - Samuel Johnson < > A couple of months in the laboratory can save a couple hours in the library - Westheimer's Discovery < > A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden - Samuel Johnson < > A creed is an ossified metaphor - Elbert Hubbard < > A critic is a legless man who teaches running - Anon < > A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car - Kenneth Tynan < > A criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty - Matthew Arnold < > A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in - Great Frederick < > A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing - Samuel Johnson < > A cult is a religion with no political power - Tom Wolfe < > A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing - Oscar Wilde < > A day less or more At sea or ashore, We die - does it matter when? - Alfred Tennyson < > A day of battle is a day of harvest for the devil - William Hock < > A day without sunshine is like night - Anon < > A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away - Antoine de Saint-Exupery < > A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy - Guy Fawkes < > A diamond is not forever, it's just a metastable state - Dr. Brent Fultz < > A different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections - George Mary Eliot < > A dimple in the chin, a devil within - Proverb < > A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age - Robert Frost < > A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head - Unknown < > A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip - Caskie Stinnett < > A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally - Sir Peter Ustinov < > A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal - W Jay < > A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise hisclients to plant vines - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) < > A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured, just as a critic is a poet who has stopped writing verse and a policeman a burglar who has retired from practice - Marcel Proust < > A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of - Ogden Nash < > A drainless shower Of light is poesy; 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm - John Keats < > A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned - George Bernard Shaw < > A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you - Francoise Sagan < > A drowning man will clutch at a straw - Proverb < > A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist - Steward Alsop < > A family with the wrong members in control - that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase - George Eric Orwell < > A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject - Winston Churchill < > A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible - Bertrand Russell < > A farmer is always going to be rich next year - Philemon < > A fav'rite has no friend - Thomas Gray < > A fax machine is just a waffle iron with a phone in it - Abraham Simpson < > A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things - Bible < > A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions - Wilson Mizner < > A few honest men are better than numbers - Oliver Cromwell < > A few men talked of freedom, while England talked of ale - G K Chesterton < > A fine retreat is as good as a gallant attack - Baltasar Gracian 1647 < > A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still - Samuel Johnson < > A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him - Nicolas Boileau < > A fool and his money are soon married - Carolyn Wells < > A fool and his money are soon parted - Proverb < > A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money - William Shenstone < > A fool at forty is a fool indeed - Proverb < > A fool believes everything - Proverb < > A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion - Minna b Antrim < > A fool flatters himself; the wise man flatters the fool - Bulwer < > A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still - Rivarol < > A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees - William Blake < > A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do - Ralph Waldo Emerson < > A foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time - George Bernard Shaw < > A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education - George Bernard Shaw < > A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits - Paul Theroux < > A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon - Bible < > A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular - Adlai Stevenson < > A free-loader is a confirmed guest. He is the man who is always willing to come to dinner - Alfred Runyon < > A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say - Samuel Johnson < > A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails - Readers Digest < > A friend in need is a friend indeed - Proverb < > A friend in power is a friend lost - Henry Adams < > A friend is a gift you give yourself - Robert Stevenson < > A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away - Unknown < > A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body - Unknown < > A friend loveth at all times - Proverbs < > A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson < > A friend should bear his friend's infirmities - Shakespeare < > A fully equipped Duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and Dukes are just as great a terror, and they last longer - Lloyd George < > A game which a sharper once played with a dupe, entitled Heads I win, tails you lose - John ilson Croker < > A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't - Unknown < > A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on - Fred John Allen < > A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it - Brander Matthews < > A ghost has made uneasy every bed. You are not you without me and The dead Only are pleased to be alone it said - Roy Broadbent Fuller < > A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol - Dietrich Bonhoeffer < > A good actor does not make his entrance before the theatre is built - Borges and Adolfo < > A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever - Martin Tupper < > A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life - John Milton < > A good book is the purest essence of a human soul - Thomas Carlyle < > A good composer does not imitate; he steals - Igor Stravinsky < > A good conscience is a continual feast - Robert Burton < > A good critic is one who narrates the adventures of his mind among masterpieces - Anatole Jacques France < > A good cure for insomnia is to get plenty of sleep - W C Fields < > A good deed never goes unpunished - Gore Vidal < > A good dog deserves a good bone - Proverb < > A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening - Kenneth Tynan < > A good drink makes the old young - Proverb < > A good face is a letter of recommendation - Proverb < > A good friend is my nearest relation - Proverb < > A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa - Stephen Potter < > A good gulp of hot whisky at bedtime ... it's not very scientific, but it helps - Sir Alexander Fleming < > A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect - Francois e Fenelon < > A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit - John C. Maxwell < > A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something - Wilson Mizner < > A good listener is not someone who has nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat - Katherine Whitehorn < > A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming - Barbarella < > A good many inconveniences attend play-going in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself - Kenneth Tynan < > A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it - Unknown < > A good memory is needed after one has lied - Pierre Corneille < > A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself - Arthur Miller < > A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author - Gilbert Chesterton < > A good place to meet men is at the dry cleaners. These men have jobs and usually bathe - Rita Rudner < > A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution - Dustin Hoffman < > A good scare is worth more than good advice - Proverb < > A Good Time Was Had by All - Stevie Florence Smith < > A Gourmet is a glutton who has a dictionary - Millor Fernandes < > A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away - Barry Goldwater < > A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) < > A Grand Old Man'. That means on our continent any one with snow white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty - Stephen Butler Leacock < > A great book is like great evil - Callimachus 305 BC < > A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it - William Styron < > A great city is that which has the greatest men and women - Walt Whitman < > A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying: Of course I do not like green cheese: I am very fond of brown sherry - Gilbert Chesterton < > A great epoch has begun. There exists a new spirit - Charles Le < > A great library contains the diary of the human race ... The great consulting room of a wise man is a library - G Dawson < > A great many men ... some comparatively small men now ... if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses - E H Chapin < > A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated - Robert harles Benchley < > A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices - William James < > A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out - Cyril Vernon Connolly < > A grief too much to be told, O queen, you bid me renew - Virgil < > A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer becausehe was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer - A. Whitney Brown < > A guilty conscience never feels secure - Publius Syrus < > A guitar has moonlight in it - James M Cain < > A habit the pleasure of which increases with practise, but becomes more urksome with neglect - Abigail Adams < > A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers - Robert Quillen < > A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Bob Dylan < > A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat - P. J. O'Rourke < > A healthy family is sacred territory - Unknown < > A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience - John Updike < > A heap of dust alone remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be! - Alexander Pope < > A heav'n on earth - John Milton < > A hedge between keeps friendship green - Proverb < > A historian is a prophet in reverse - Friedrich Von Schlegel < > A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it - H. L. Mencken < > A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward - Minna b Antrim < > A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! - Shakespeare < > A Hospital is no place to be sick - Samuel Goldwyn < > A house is a living-machine - Le Corbusier < > A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters Beware of the dog - Petronius < > A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something - Frank Capra < > A hundred and fifty accurate reproductions of Anne Hathaway's cottage, each complete with central heating and garage - Osbert Lancaster < > A hungry stomach has no ears - Jean de La Fontaine < > A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted - Helen Rowland (1876-1950) < > A hypocrite is a person who ... but who isn't - Don Marquis < > A joke is a very serious thing - Winston Churchill   > The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. - H. T. Leslie < > Many are cold but few are frozen. (Anon) <