Quotes, July 2002
01. It is an all-too-human frailty to suppose that a favorable wind will blow forever.
- Rick Bode
02. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- H.L. Mencken
03. If a person offends you, do not resort to extremes. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.
- Mark Twain
04. America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.
- Ayn Rand
05. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon
06. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
07. When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.
- Benjamin Franklin
08. I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
- Woodrow Wilson
09. Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
- David Fasold
10. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
- Alexis De Tocqueville
11. Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals - the technique of the marketplace.
- Milton Friedman
12. My husband and I have found a great system for housekeeping: None of us do it.
- Dottie Archibald
13. We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"
14. Dear God. We paid for all this stuff ourselves, so thanks for nothing.
- Bart Simpson saying grace
15. While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
16. You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
17. When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."
- Mikhail Bakunin
18. Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
- Woody Allen
19. Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
20. If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
21. He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
22. Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
- Samuel Goldwyn
23. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
24. The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
- Jean-Paul Kauffmann
25. There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
- P. J. O'Rourke
26. We have gone completely overboard on security. Everything has to be secured, jobs, wages, hours - although the ultimate in security is jail, the slave labor camp, and the salt mine.
- Cola Parker
27. Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
- Jack Handy
28. I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
- Howard Stern
29. "We're gonna give you a fair trial, followed by a first class hanging."
- Brian Dennehy in "Silverado"
30. "If hate were people, I'd be China!"
- Daniel Stern in "City Slickers"
31. "There's someone out there for everyone - even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them."
- Steve Martin in "LA Story"
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