Lines for Posterity

Lines for posterity...

I beg to differ with myself.
— Helen Glenn Court

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
— Rita Mae Brown

"Oh, bother," said the Borg. "We've assimilated Pooh."
— Unknown wit

It's not that I think stupidity should be punishable by death. I just think we should take the warning labels off everything and let the problem take care of itself.
— Author unknown

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less."
— Author unknown

The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
— George Bernard Shaw

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
— David Lloyd George

Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
— Samuel Johnson, 30 April 1773

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
— Indira Gandhi

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
— Isabel Colegate

Anyone who does not want to be an apprentice will never become a master.
— Jan Tschichold

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
— Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.
— Will Rogers

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
— Bertrand Russell

I like pigs. Dogs look up to you, cats look down at you, pigs treat you as equals.
— Winston Churchill

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming, "WOO HOO what a ride!"
— Unknown

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

I didn't say that. It must have been some other arrogant, judgmental SOB.
— Sam Waterson's character, Law and Order

No good pushing on a rope.
— Unknown

If we only get out of life what we put into it, why not just keep it in the first place and save a lot of time and effort?
— Rohan Candappa (the little book of wrong shui)

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
— Somerset Maugham

Former Vice President Richard Nixon is joining the law firm of Mudge, Stern, Baldwin and Todd. Mudge is dead. Stern is dead. Baldwin is dead. Alas, poor Todd. [1963]
— James Lerner (1911-2003)

Hindsight is a form of tunnel vision. It sees only one thing, a narrowly circumscribed version of the past, stripped of nuance, and bereft of the continuous sense of the unknown and unexpected that marks the unfolding of events.
— James S. Robbins

Reincarnation doesn't help you if in your next incarnation you still don't know who you are.
— Eckhart Tolle

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
— Arnold Toynbee

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift; the rational mind is faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
— Albert Einstein

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
— Doug Larson

There are two types of people — those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."
— Frederick L Collins

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
— John Kenneth Galbraith

Party associations, it should be understood, are not based on law, nor do they seek the common welfare. They are lawless and seek only self-interest.
— Thucydides

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
— Clarence Darrow

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value: rather, it is one of those things that gives value to survival.
— C.S. Lewis

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.
— Henry Ford

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than yours; it simply erases your own experience in history.
— Renata Adler

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
— Henry Kissinger

Were Jesus alive today, he would probably nail himself to the cross to get away from all these people who act like barbarians in his name.
— William Rivers Pitt

I did not attend the funeral, but I sent a letter saying I approved of it.
— Mark Twain

You're only as good as you do the next day.
— Kevin Tapani

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
— unknown

The advantage that critics after the event have over statesmen is that statesmen must act with inadequate information within an inadequate time.
— Henry Kissinger

People will forget what you said and what you did, but not how you made them feel.
— unknown

There is certainly nothing criminal about simply being snooty, obnoxious, and arrogant; if there were, we would have jailed all of the French years ago.
— Veston Pance

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
— Soren Kierkegaard

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
— Ambrose Bierce

Don't cry that it's over, smile that it happened.
— unknown

After a time, you may find that having something is not so great a thing as wanting something. It is not logical, but it is very often true.
— Mr Spock

a good many failures are happy
because they don t realize it
many a cockroach believes himself
as beautiful as a butterfly
have a heart o have a heart
and let them dream on
— don marquis

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
— Carl Sandburg

That was a way of putting it — not very satisfactory:
A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,
Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle
With words and meanings.
— T.S. Eliot

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'
— Lewis Carroll

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
— Winston Churchill

if you get gloomy just
take an hour off and sit
and think how
much better this world
is than hell
of course it won t cheer
you up much if
you expect to go there
— don marquis

There is no end, but addition: the trailing
consequence of further days and hours,
while emotion takes to itself the emotionless
years of living among the breakage
of what was believed in as the most reliable
and therefore the fittest for renunciation.
— T.S. Eliot

Cats sleep a lot. When they are not sleeping, they are napping, staring, pondering, lying about, waiting or turning around three times in order to find a more comfortable spot in which to nap, stare, ponder, etc.
— Jon Carroll

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