Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one^ Albert Einstein
Modern jazz: Variations on a non-existent theme^ Maxim Gorky
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.^ Frank Moore Colby
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.^ James Truslow Adams
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.^ Deng Xiaoping
Journalism is merely history's first draft.^ Geoffrey C. Ward
Now, while the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new.^ Samuel Butler 1
An Austrian army awfully arrayed.^ Unattributed Author
No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise.^ Alan Biole
Social Security is truly a test of our values as Americans. Social Security is a fundamental promise that lifts half of our seniors out of poverty and helps millions of disabled Americans, widows and orphans. We owe Americans a better debate than we're having today. It's about time we do everything we can to keep the promise of Social Security.^ Senator John Kerry
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity^ George Eliot
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.^ Douglas Adams
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.^ Joseph R. Krutch
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.^ Aristotle
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.^ Saint Thomas Aquinas
Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.^ William Shakespeare
You can't control what you can't measure^ Tom DeMarco
In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.^ Livy
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.^ Oscar Wilde
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.^ Arthur Koestler
Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.^ Arthur Schopenhauer
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.^ James Baldwin
Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...^ Michael Stipe
First we make our habits, then our habits make us.^ Charles C. Noble
Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.^ Chief Seattle
Her beads while she numbered, The baby still slumbered, And smile in her face, as she bended her knee; Oh! bless'd be that warning, My child, thy sleep adorning, For I know that the angels are whispering with thee.^ Samuel Lover
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.^ Archbishop Richard Whately
Suspicion follows close on mistrust.^ Gotthold Lessing
We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.^ James Bryce
Eloquence is the poetry of prose.^ William C. Bryant
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.^ James Thurber
Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!^ Lord Alfred Tennyson
We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.^ James Bryce
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.^ James Thurber
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.^ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.^ George Eliot
There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.^ Lyndon Baines Johnson
Sorrow is the great idealizer.^ Unknown
I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.^ Francis Bacon
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.^ Jean de La Fontaine
The feller that calls you "brother" generally wants something that don't belong to him^ Kin Hubbard
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.^ Martin Luther King Jr.
Modern jazz: Variations on a non-existent theme^ Maxim Gorky
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.^ Frank Moore Colby
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.^ James Truslow Adams
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.^ Deng Xiaoping
Journalism is merely history's first draft.^ Geoffrey C. Ward
Now, while the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new.^ Samuel Butler 1
An Austrian army awfully arrayed.^ Unattributed Author
No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise.^ Alan Biole
Social Security is truly a test of our values as Americans. Social Security is a fundamental promise that lifts half of our seniors out of poverty and helps millions of disabled Americans, widows and orphans. We owe Americans a better debate than we're having today. It's about time we do everything we can to keep the promise of Social Security.^ Senator John Kerry
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity^ George Eliot
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.^ Douglas Adams
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.^ Joseph R. Krutch
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.^ Aristotle
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.^ Saint Thomas Aquinas
Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.^ William Shakespeare
You can't control what you can't measure^ Tom DeMarco
In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.^ Livy
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.^ Oscar Wilde
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.^ Arthur Koestler
Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.^ Arthur Schopenhauer
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.^ James Baldwin
Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...^ Michael Stipe
First we make our habits, then our habits make us.^ Charles C. Noble
Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.^ Chief Seattle
Her beads while she numbered, The baby still slumbered, And smile in her face, as she bended her knee; Oh! bless'd be that warning, My child, thy sleep adorning, For I know that the angels are whispering with thee.^ Samuel Lover
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.^ Archbishop Richard Whately
Suspicion follows close on mistrust.^ Gotthold Lessing
We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.^ James Bryce
Eloquence is the poetry of prose.^ William C. Bryant
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.^ James Thurber
Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!^ Lord Alfred Tennyson
We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.^ James Bryce
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.^ James Thurber
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.^ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.^ George Eliot
There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.^ Lyndon Baines Johnson
Sorrow is the great idealizer.^ Unknown
I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.^ Francis Bacon
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.^ Jean de La Fontaine
The feller that calls you "brother" generally wants something that don't belong to him^ Kin Hubbard
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.^ Martin Luther King Jr.
