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After
you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, it makes you
wonder about history.
-- Author Unknown
Grandson of John Quincy Adams,
great-grandson of John Adams,
Henry Adams was a Harvard
educated historian and social observer.
Here are some quotes from him.
It is impossible to underrate
human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
No one means all he says, and yet
very few say all they mean, for words are
slippery and thought is viscous.
Chaos often breeds life when order
breeds habit.
Practical politics consists in
ignoring facts.
Politics, as a practice, whatever
its professions, has always been the
systematic organization of hatreds
I had rather starve and rot and
keep the privilege of speaking the truth
than of holding all the offices
that capital has to give, from the presidency
downward.
A teacher affects eternity; he can
never tell where his influence stops.
Absolute liberty is absence of
restraint; responsibility is restraint;
therefore, the ideally free
individual is responsible to himself.
-- end Henry Adams
quotes --
There is never enough time, unless
you're serving it.
-- Malcolm Forbes
On Groundhog's Day, if the
groundhog sees his shadow, it's six
more weeks of winter. But if
he doesn't, spring will be here in
just a month and a half!
-- WFS
Whenever you find you are on the
side of the majority, it is time to
pause and reflect.
-- Mark Twain
"As a matter of fact" is an
expression that precedes many an expression
that isn't.
-- Author Unknown
I'm all in favor of keeping
dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools.
Let's start with the typewriter.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
Any fool can criticize, condemn,
and complain - and most fools do.
-- Dale Carnegie
Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein
Teaching kids to count is fine,
but teaching them what counts is best.
-- Bob Talbert
For every action there is an equal
and opposite criticism.
-- Author Unknown
The road to success is marked with
many tempting parking places.
-- Author Unknown
The hardest thing in the world to
understand is income tax.
-- Albert Einstein.
From Mr. Benjamin Franklin
- He that waits upon fortune, is
never sure of a dinner.
- Laws too gentle are seldom
obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
- To succeed, jump as quickly at
opportunities as you do at conclusions.
- Keep your eyes wide open before
marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Be civil to all, sociable to
many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none.
- Nothing in life is certain
except death and taxes.
- Fear not death, for the sooner
we die the longer we shall be immortal.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough,
although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
-- Sir Robert Hutchinson
Some cause happiness wherever they
go; others, whenever they
go.
-- Oscar Wilde
Honesty may be the best policy,
but it's important to remember that
apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
-- George Carlin
The mere formulation of a problem
is far more essential than its solution,
which may be merely a matter of
mathematical or experimental skills. To
raise new questions, new
possibilities, to regard old problems from a new
angle requires creative
imagination and marks real advances in science.
-- Albert Einstein
When you have your head up your
ass, 4 of the 5 senses do not work.
-- Nelson DeMille
As I grow older, I pay less
attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
-- Andrew Carnegie
The length of a film should be
directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
The best prescription is knowledge.
-- Dr. C. Everett Koop
When all you have known is
trouble, more trouble seems a bounty.
-- AHIO
War does not determine who is right
- only
who is left.
-- Bertrand Russell
The man with a new idea is a crank,
until the
idea succeeds.
-- Mark Twain
It's easy to identify people who
can't count
to ten. They're in
front of you in the supermarket express lane.
-- Author Unknown
My opinions may have changed, but
not the fact
that I am right.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the
facts.
-- Albert Einstein
History teaches us that men behave
wisely,
once they have exhausted all
other alternatives.
-- Abba Eban
All the experience of history
confirms that
sharing the same beliefs has
been a preliminary to quarreling about
their interpretation.
-- Theodore Zeldin
Annie Observations:
You don't want to know what a dog's nose has learned.
Anything you set free will carry your name to God.
A cat can tell more about you in a glance than a therapist can in an hour.
Girls - if you want a man to read your body language, use single syllables.
[The above "Annie Observations are thanks to AHIO]
A good listener is usually thinking
about something
else.
-- Kin Hubbard
People will accept your ideas much
more readily
if you tell them
Benjamin Franklin said it first.
-- David Comins
They say a smile is a gift which is
free to
the giver and precious to the
recipient. But giving the finger is
free too, and I find it more personal
and sincere.
-- Author Unknown
I haven't failed, I've found 10,000
ways that
don't work.
-- Thomas Edison
Punctuality is the virtue of the
bored.
-- Evelyn Waugh
The truth is usually just an excuse
for a lack
of imagination.
-- Author Unknown
Marriage is like a horse with a
broken leg...You
can shoot it, but that
still doesn't fix the leg.
-- Author Unknown
It takes a genius to whine appealingly.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
A person with a new idea is a crank until
the
idea succeeds.
-- Mark Twain
A friend is like a good bra... Hard to
find,
supportive, comfortable,
and always close to my heart.
-- Rose
After you've heard two eyewitness accounts
of an auto accident it makes
you wonder about history.
-- Author Unknown
Beautiful young people are an accident of
nature.
Beautiful old people are works of art.
-- Anne Hillebrand
Any identity would seem to be arrived at by
the way in which the person
faces and uses his experience.
-- James Baldwin
Americans are a broad-minded people.
They'll
accept the fact that a
person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend,
a wife beater, and even a
newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive
there's
something wrong with
him.
-- Art Buchwald
Do not the most moving moments of our lives
find us without words?
-- Marcel Marceau
When I heated my home with oil, I used an
average
of 800 gallons a
year. I have found that I can keep comfortably
warm for an entire
winter with slightly over half that quantity
of beer.
-- Dave Barry
Nobody trips over mountains. It is
the
small pebble that causes you to
stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your
path and you will have crossed the
mountain.
-- Author Unknown
There is a very fine line between 'hobby'
and
'mental illness.'
-- Dave Barry
Life is a grindstone; whether it grinds you
down or polishes you
up depends on what you're made of.
-- Jacob M. Braude
Too much of anything is bad, but too much
of
good whisky is
barely enough.
-- Mark Twain
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
-- Woody Allen
Every exit is an entry somewhere.
-- Tom Stoppard
He that is good for making excuses is
seldom
good for anything else.
-- Benjamin Franklin
He has all the virtues I dislike, and none
of the vices I admire.
-- Winston Churchill
Be careful about reading health books. You
may die of a misprint.
-- Mark Twain
The difference between fiction and reality?
Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy
Most people would rather die than think; in
fact, they do so often.
-- Bertrand Russell
A people without history is not redeemed
from
time.
-- T.S. Eliot
There is no sadder sight than a young
pessimist.
-- Mark Twain
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others,
whenever they go.
-- Oscar Wilde
Comedy is the art of making people laugh
without
making them puke.
-- Steve Martin
Self-respect is a question of recognizing
that
anything
worth having has a price.
-- Joan Didion
Everything is funny as long as it's
happening
to someone else.
-- Will Rogers
It is impossible to keep a straight face in
the presence of one or more
kittens.
-- Cynthia E. Varnado
If the desire to kill and the opportunity
to
kill came always
together, who would escape hanging?
-- Mark Twain
Success seems to be largely a matter of
hanging
on after others
have let go.
-- William Feather
What makes us desire new friends is not so
much the weariness of
our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as
the hope of being more
admired by those who do not know us so well.
-- Author Unknown
You can't direct the wind, but you can
adjust
your sails.
-- Author Unknown
In the middle of difficulty lies
opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein
You can go a long way with a smile. You can
go a lot farther
with a smile and a gun.
-- Al Capone
Facts and truth really don't have much to
do
with each other.
-- William Faulkner
Happiness is best achieved by those who do
not seek it directly.
-- Bertrand Russell
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is
being
run by smart
people who are putting us on or by imbeciles
who really mean it.
-- Mark Twain
When a man steals your wife, there is no
better
revenge than to let
him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is
because
Fiction is obliged to
stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
-- Mark Twain
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
-- Horace
It is not necessary to understand things in
order to argue about them.
- Caron de Beaumarchais
For the truly faithful, no miracle is
necessary.
For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
-- Nancy Gibbs
Think highly of yourself, for the world
takes
you at your
own estimate.
-- Author Unknown
No matter how much cats fight, there always
seem to be plenty
of kittens.
-- Abraham Lincoln
You know there is a problem with the
education
system when you
realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins
with an R.
-- Dennis Miller
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to
be
drunk to spend time with his
fools.
-- Ernest Hemingway
Silence is often misinterpreted, but never
misquoted.
-- Author Unknown
Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.
-- Author Unknown
I bet Zorro came up with that name AFTER he
found out he could
do that 'Z' thing with his sword.
-- Andy Pierson
For more of Andy's original thoughts, visit
him at: http://i.bet.homepage.com
The closest to perfection a person ever
comes
is when he
fills out a job application form.
-- Stanley J. Randall
Patience is something you admire in the
driver
behind you,
but not in one ahead.
-- Bill Mcglashen
Southerners will be polite until they are
angry
enough to kill you.
-- John Shelton Reed
The part in the most consistent need of
repair
or replacement
will be housed in the most inaccessible
location.
-- Kenny's Law of Auto Repair
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than
fiction?
Fiction, after all,
has to make sense.
-- Mark Twain
A good listener is usually thinking about
something
else.
-- Kin Hubbard
A mother understands what a child does not
say.
-- Author Unknown
I couldn't tell if the streaker was a man
or
a woman because it had a bag
on its head.
-- Yogi Berra
Those at the top of the mountain didn't
fall
there.
-- Marcus Washling
A show of envy is an insult to
oneself.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The whole problem with the world is that
fools
and fanatics are
always so certain of themselves, but wiser
people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell
Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.
-- Author Unknown
When a man brings his wife a gift for no
reason,
there's a reason.
-- Molly McGee
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
-- Alfred Lloyd Tennyson
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
-- William Shakespeare
