Quote of the Month
June 2002
"A diplomat is someone who
can tell you to go to hell
in such a way that you look
forward to the trip."
- Cashie Stinnett.
May
"Art is the signature
of civilizations."
- Jean Sibelius.
April
"Illegal aliens have always been
a problem in the United States.
Ask any Indian."
- Robert Orben.
March
"Put your hand on a stove for a minute
and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute.
That's relativity."
- Albert Einstein.
February
"When I wake up,
I have coffee and a cigarette.
That's all I really want out of life.
That, and world domination."
- Ryan Adams.
January 2002
"Among those whom I like or admire,
I can find no common denominator,
but among those I love, I can;
all of them make me laugh."
- W. H. Auden.
December 2001
"Man's main task in life is
to give birth to himself,
to become what he potentially is."
- Erich Fromm.
November
"To obtain a man's opinion of you,
make him mad."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes.
October
"There is only one success-
to be able to spend your life
your own way."
- Christopher Morley.
September
"Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards."
- Soren Kierkegaard.
August
"We don't have to hate,
we can create,
we can change."
- Shimon Peres, former Israeli Prime Minister.
July
"A leader takes people where they want to go,
a great leader takes people where they don't want to go
but ought to be."
- Rosalyn Carter.
June
"Maybe this world is
another planet's hell."
- Aldous Huxley.
May
"Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin
but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
- Harper Lee, 'To Kill A Mockingbird'.
April
"You will find something more in woods than in books.
Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters."
- Saint Bernard (1091 - 1153), Epistle.
March
"America may be unique in being a country which
has leapt from barbarism to decadence without
touching civilization."
- John O'Hara.
February
"Red meat is not bad for you.
Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!"
- Tommy Smothers.
January 2001
"You can pretend to be serious;
you can't pretend to be witty."
- Sacha Guitry.
December 2000
"Laughter is the shortest
distance between two people."
- Victor Borge.
November
"What good fortune for those in power
that people do not think!"
- Adolph Hitler.
October
"Beware of the lollipop of mediocrity,
one lick and you suck for life."
- Anonymous.
September
"The only reason some people get lost in thought
is because it's unfamiliar territory."
- Paul Fix.
August
"Many a man's reputation
would not know his character
if they met on the street."
- Elbert Hubbard.
July
"Where facts are few, experts are many."
- Donald R. Gannon.
June
"Democracy is a process
by which the people are
free
to choose the man
who will get the blame."
- Laurence Peter.
May
"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent."
- Euripides.
April
"What lies behind us and
what lies before us are tiny
matters
compared to
what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
March
"Painting: The act of protecting flat surfaces
from the wind and exposing them to the critic."
- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary".
February
"Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed."
- Jonathan Swift.
January 2000
"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be."
- Peter de Vries.
December 1999
"We must believe in luck.
For how else can we explain the
success of those we don't like?"
- Jean Cocteau.
November
"Say what you will about the sweet
miracle of unquestioning faith.
I consider the capacity for it terrifying."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
October
"He who lives without principles
dies without honor."
- Norse Proverb.
September
"To arrive at the truth,
the Germans add,
the French subtract,
and the British
change the subject."
- Peter Ustinov.
August
"Setting too good an example
is a kind of slander seldom forgiven."
- Benjamin Franklin, "Poor Richard's Almanack."
July
"There are two types of people
in this world, good and bad.
The good sleep better, but
the bad seem to enjoy the
waking hours much more."
- Woody Allen.
June
"No one can be
caught in places
he doesn't visit."
- Danish Proverb.
May
"Always do right.
This will surprise some people
and astonish the rest."
- Mark Twain.
April
"Love is the ability to attribute favorable
characteristics to someone that
he or she does not have."
- Hugh Clay Paulk.
March
"Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world,
and people die of it just as they die of
any other disease."
- Oscar Wilde.
February
"If I have any beliefs about immortality,
it is that certain dogs I have known will go
to heaven, and very, very few persons."
-James Thurber.
January 1999
"It is dangerous to be sincere
unless you are also stupid."
-George Bernard Shaw.
December 1998
"When the mind is ready, a teacher appears."
-Traditional Zen proverb.
November
"I shall never cease to be amazed at the infinite
capacity of the human brain to resist the
penetration of useful knowledge."
- Starratt John Burgess.
October
"No bird soars too high,
if he soars with his
own wings."
-William Blake.
September
"Public opinion is a
harlot that must be
driven with a whip."
-Andre Tardieu, French Premier, 1929-1932.
August
"Experience teaches us
that, generally speaking,
the most perilous moment
for a bad government is
when it seeks to mend
its ways."
-Alexis De Tocqueville.
July
"Nowhere do people lie more
than before a wedding,
during hunting or
after campaigning."
-Otto Von Bismarck.
June
"It is often said that men
are ruled by their imaginations;
But truer to say that they are
governed by
the weakness of
their imaginations."
-Walter Bagehot, "The English Constitution", 1867.
May
"The eye of the master
will do more work than both
his hands."
-Benjamin Franklin
April
"It is better to travel well
than to arrive."
-Tibetan adage.
March
"A good listener is
not only popular everywhere,
but after a while he gets
to know something."
-Wilson Mizner
February
"There are two motives for reading;
One, that you enjoy it;
The other, that you can boast about it."
-Bertrand Russell
January 1998
"War is not merely a political act,
but also a political instrument,
a continuation of political relations,
a carrying out of the same by other means."
-Carl von Clausewitz, "On War", 1833.
December 1997
"I shall pass through this world but once.
If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show
or any good thing I can do, let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again."
-Stephan Grellet.
November
"In the beginning
The universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry
and been widely regarded as a bad move."
-'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe'
October
"Think globally,
React Parochially."
-Jim Borgman, Cartoonist
September
"Who saves his country,
saves himself, saves all things,
and all things do bless him!
Who lets his country die,
lets all things die, dies himself ignobly,
and all things dying curse him!"
-Sen. Benjamin H. Hill Jr., 1893
August 1997
"If your mother says she loves you,
check it out."
-John Bremmer, Editing Professor,
The University of Kansas.
