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In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it creates.
-Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French writer

"...idiots, imbeciles, aliens, the insane and women..."
- A law standing in Texas until 1918 regulating who could not vote.

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
- Mark Twain

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
* Winnie the Pooh

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
* Charles Caleb Colton

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."
* Albert Camus....

"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."

"Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life."

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
* Mencius

"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."

"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend."
* Stone Temple Pilots

"I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay."
* Dave Matthews Band

"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't mjump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them"

"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere"
* Tim McGraw

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
* Lee Iacocca

"Hold a true friend with both your hands."
* Nigerian Proverb

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
* unknown

"It is bad luck to be superstitious."
- Andrew W. Mathis

"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

"Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks."
- Eric Sevareid

We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for
song is their pleasure since they were created for singing.
Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles
to fathom the secrets of the heavens.... The diversity of
the phenomena of Nature is so great, and the treasures
hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the
human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
-Johannes Keppler (1571-1630) German astronomer

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good
habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
-William Somerset Maugham

"Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down."
--Olive Schreiner

"Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy."
--Henry Link

"No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way
you take it."
--Ellen Glasgow

"If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten."
- George Carlin

"Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many
memories." - Steven Wright

"As Miss America, my goal is to bring peace to the entire
world and then to get my own apartment." - Jay Leno

"There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and
pool." - L.M. Boyd

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make
an exception." - Groucho Marx

"When I was a baby, I kept a diary. Recently, I was rereading it. It said, 'Day 1 - Still tired from the move. Day 2 - Everybody talks to me like I'm an idiot.'"
- Steven Wright

"You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right, I never would have thought of that.'"
- Dave Barry

"The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved."
- Russell Lynes

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe.
-Abraham Lincoln

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
--Jean-Paul Sartre

"In ancient times, cats were worshipped as gods; they have never forgotten this."
- Anonymous

--"Those that dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain. - Dutch Proverb

--"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." - Joseph Wood Krutch

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."
--Eric Hoffer

"The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss."
--Diane Ravitch

"If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit. But whatever you do, don't wobble."
--Anon.

"Work hard at several projects. That way, no matter what is going wrong, something will be going right."
-- Donna Hanover

"If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least."
--Herman Melville (in Moby Dick)

"I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism, and much more, only to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right."
--Chick Corea

"Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath."
-- Jacob Braude

It was tragic. They arrested an Amish man and put him in jail. Think about it. It's terrible. It's worse than me and you. Take him down there. Give him that one phone call. Who the hell is he going to call? None of his friends have telephones.
-- Mario Joyner

People in New York are always in a hurry. When you call 911, the operator says "This better be good."
-- David Letterman

"You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself."
--Pearl Bailey

"Fortune favors the brave."
--Proverb

"It is never too late to give up your prejudices."
--Henry David Thoreau

"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles." -- Claude M. Bristol

"A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had."
-- Guy Kawasaki

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
-Learned Hand, (1872-1961) American jurist

"Those bellhops in Miami are tip-happy. I ordered a deck of playing cards and the bellboy made fifty-two trips to my room."
- Henny Youngman

The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever see that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. "Come on buddy, let's go. You get past me, the guy in back of me, he's got a spoon. Back off. I've got the toe clippers right here."
-- Jerry Seinfeld

Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but
betrayal and murder exist because of their silent consent.
-Bruno Jasienski

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
-Thomas Jefferson

Ask yourself why the New York City subway system, alone of all the mass transit systems in the world, has maps inside rather than outside the trains. It's to force you to get on the wrong train in order to find out where you're going... You decipher the map to discover that the first step in reaching your destination is to get off the wrong train at the next stop.
-- Calvin Trillin

"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances."
--Martha Washington

"Winning isn't everything. *Wanting* to win is."
--Catfish Hunter, baseball pitcher

"Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit."
--Rita Mae Brown

I remember my first day of school. My parents dropped me off at the wrong nursery. I didn't know anybody--I was surrounded by trees.
-- Janine DiTullo

If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?
-- Steven Wright

"This is not a dress rehearsal. This is *It*.
--Tom Cunningham

"'But' is a fence over which few leap."
--German proverb

"The shortest answer is doing."
--English proverb

"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once."
-- Charles Lamb

"I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem."
-- Ashleigh Brilliant

"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."
-- Tom Robbins

"It is prudent to pour the oil of delicate politeness upon the machinery of friendship."
--Colette

"The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too."
--Herbert Samuels

"The true test of character is...how we behave when we don't know what to do."
--John Holt

The possession of facts is knowledge, the use of them is wisdom.
-Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-David Starr Jordan (1851-1931) American biologist/educator

"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."
-- J.D. Salinger

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
-- Voltaire

"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers."
-- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

"Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming."
--Johannn von Goethe

"Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time."
--Cher

"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"
--Jane Austen

I like dogs. I do. But they're not that bright, really. Let's examine the dog mind: Every time you come home, he thinks it's amazing. He can't believe that you've accomplished this again. You walk in the door. The joy of it almost kills him. "He's back again! It's that guy! It's that guy!"
-- Jerry Seinfeld

"There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children and children love hamsters." - Alice Thomas Ellis

"If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?"
- Lily Tomlin

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."
--Marie Curie

"The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year."
--Thomas Dreier

"Trust you own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."
--Billy Wilder

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
-- Nelson Henderson

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
-- Oscar Wilde

"The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again." - George Miller

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers."
- Calvin Trillin

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.
-William James (1842-1910) Psychologist and philosopher

"Concern should drive us into action and not into depression."
--Karen Horney

"True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less."
--William Hazlitt

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
--Doris Mortman

"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?"
-- Clarence Darrow

"The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence."
-- Joan Baez

"Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!"
-- Matt Frewer as Dr. Mike Stratford in "Doctor, Doctor"

"My grandfather's a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice. One day he took me aside and left me there."
- Ron Richards

"When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody."
-- W. S. Gilbert

"Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation."
-- Howard Scott

"I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is."
-- Charles Lamb

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

"One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say."
--Voltaire

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935) American jurist

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
-Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) writer, philosopher, longshoreman

"Audacity, more audacity, always audacity."
--Georges Jacques Danton

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be."
--Abraham Maslow

"I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead."
--Anita Baker

If any many wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
-Goethe, 1749-1832) German poet

"Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find."
-- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

"They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them."
-- Eeyore, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
-- Helen Keller

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
-Chinese Proverb

"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right."
--Edward Simmons

"Look twice before you leap."
--Charlotte Bronte

"The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days."
--M.M. Coady

"It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
-- Jerome K Jerome

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
-- George Orwell

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."
-- George Santayana

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their
possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
-William James (1842-1910) Psychologist and philosopher

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
-Ibsen (1828-1906) Norwegian poet and playwright

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought."
--Matsuo Basho

"He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser."
--Susan Sontag

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."
--Malcolm Forbes

"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know that it has to get down to earth."
--Pearl Buck

"To be a manager, you have to start at the bottom, no exceptions."
--Henry Block

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself."
--Ethel Barrymore

Dogs come when they're called. Cats take a message and get back to you.
-- Missy Dizick

"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things."
-- Woody Allen

"An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attornety can delay one even longer."
-- Evelle J. Younger

"The big thieves hang the little ones."
-- Czech proverb

"Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short."
--Adam Hochschild

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
--Muhammid Ali

"Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt."
Barbara Walters

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

"Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?"
-- Woody Allen

"Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours."
--Anon.

"People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not."
--Giacomo Leopardi

"If it's a good idea . . . go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."
--Grace M. Hopper

"I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on."
-- Oscar Levant

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
-- George Bernard Shaw

"I've always tried to go a step past wherever other people expected me to end up."
--Beverly Sills

"When you're through changing, you're through."
--Bruce Barton

"True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said, and that only."
--Francois de La Rochefoucald

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
-- George Bernard Shaw

"Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it."
-- Elias Schwartz

"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you."
-- Larry Gelbart

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
--Robert Louis Stevenson

"Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom."
--Anon.

"Money isn't everything, but lack of money isn't anything."
--Franklin P. Adams

"Life is a risk."
--Diane Von Furstenberg

"Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time."
--Norman Ford

"If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners."
-- Johnny Carson

"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure why take the chance?" - Ronald Reagan

"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do."
-- Jerome K. Jerome

"Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it."
--Col. Michael Friedsman

"It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive."
--Federico Fellini

"I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who *have* to dance."
--George Balanchine

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"
-- Steven Wright

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.
Alexander Haig, (b. 1924) American politician

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