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05-13-2002 - “If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.”
Edward Koch
05-06-2002 - “I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Thomas Jefferson
04-29-2002 - “A lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.”
Anonymous
04-22-2002 - “Government's view of the economy could be summed up in afew short phrases:
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.”
Ronald Reagan
03-11-2002 - “Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political
beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon”
Walter Lippmann
03-04-2002 - “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
Mother Teresa
02-25-2002 - “Voting is a civic sacrament.”
Theodore M. Hesburgh
02-18-2002 - “Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”
Otto von Bismark
02-11-2002 - “To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.”
Hubert H. Humphrey
02-04-2002 - “The law an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”
Mohandas Gandhi01-28-2002 - “There's nothing like looking, if you want to find something.”
Thorin, in "The Hobbit", J. R. R. Tolkien01-21-2002 - “The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth,
and to have it found out by accident”
Charles Lamb12-31-2001 - “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get
its pants on”
Sir Winston Churchill12-24-2001 - “Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.”
Anonymous12-17-2001 - “In Mexico we have a word for sushi—bait.”
José Simon12-10-2001 - “From politics, it was an easy step to silence.”
Jane Austen 181812-03-2001 - “Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.”
Anonymous11-26-2001 - “Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day.”
Virginia Woolf, 192511-19-2001 - “From politics, it was an easy step to silence.”
Jane Austen 181811-12-2001 - “A man in love is incomplete until he has married.
Then he's finished.”
Zsa Zsa Gabor, 196011-05-2001 - “Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.”
Albert Einstein10-29-2001 - “What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes,
he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. ”
A.A. Milne10-22-2001 - “Wisdom is a fruit picked from someone else's garden”
Tabwa proverb10-15-2001 - “Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.”
Anonymous10-08-2001 - “A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.”
English proverb10-01-2001 - “Oh, what a day-to-day business, life is.”
Jules Laforgue, 188509-24-2001 - “Bagels are made with love and a little cement.”
Anonymous09-17-2001 - “Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.”
Marston Bates09-10-2001 - “Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to
outgrow small ones.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
09-03-2001 - “A fool can always find a greater fool to admire him.”
Nicolas Boileau, 167408-27-2001 - “Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 184708-20-2001 - “Our torment also may in length of time Become our elements.”
John Milton, “Paradise Lost”, 166708-13-2001 - “And let a scholar all Earth's volumes carry, He will be but a dictionary.”
George Chapman 160908-06-2001 - “A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”
Adlai Stevenson 195207-30-2001 - “Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.”
Robert Browning, 186407-23-2001 - “China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.”
Charles de Gaulle, ex-French President07-16-2001 - “And when we think we lead, We are most led.”
Lord Byron 182107-09-2001 - “Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it
from themselves.”
James Barrie07-02-2001 - “He hath shook hands with time.”
John Ford, 163306-25-2001 - “I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.”
Damon Runyon 193406-18-2001 - “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
Robert Frost, 194206-11-2001 - “No furniture so charming as books.”
Sydney Smith 185506-04-2001 - “In that case, if we are to abolish the death penalty,
let the murderers take the first step.”
Alphonse Kerr, 184905-28-2001 - “A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.”
Dante05-21-2001 - “If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better
care of myself.”
Eubie Blake 188505-14-2001 - “The most serious charge which can be brought against New England
is not Puritanism but February.”
Joseph Wood Krutch 194905-07-2001 - “The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before,
and . . . he does it without destroying something else.”
John Updike, 197704-30-2001 - “That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea,
and that is a wrong one.”
Samuel Johnson, 177004-23-2001 - “Wagner has lovely moments, but awful quarters of an hour.”
Gioacchino Rossini 186704-16-2001 - “Grief is a species of idleness.”
Samuel Johnson 177304-09-2001 - “Architecture in general is frozen music.”
Friedrich von Schelling, 180904-02-2001 - “If war doesn't kill you, it's bound to start you thinking.”
George Orwell03-26-2001 - “A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under which they
will never sit.”
Greek proverb03-19-2001 - “An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to
tell more than he knows.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower03-12-2001 - “The less hair to comb, the more face to wash.”
Anonymous03-05-2001 - “Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.”
Anonymous02-26-2001 - “Vegetables are substances used by children to balance their
plate while carrying it to and from the dining table.”
Anonymous02-19-2001 - “Corduroy pillows: They're making headlines!
Anonymous02-12-2001 - “What is now proved was once only imagined.”
William Blake02-05-2001 - “We are all strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.”
Duc de la Rochefoucauld, 167801-29-2001 - “It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.”
Tom Stoppard 197201-22-2001 - “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom
to make mistakes.”
Mahatma Gandhi01-16-2001 - “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight,
but the size of the fight in the dog.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower01-08-2001 - “Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who
have no opinions”
G. K. Chesterton, 190501-02-2001 - “The only way to overcome a temptation is to yield to it”
Oscar Wilde