Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Garrison Keillor |
There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.
L.M. Boyd |
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Ogden Nash |
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
Margaret Fuller |
An army marches on its stomach.
Napoleon Bonaparte |
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
Lao-tzu |
The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
Gary Talese |
To think is to differ.
Clarence Darrow |
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
Benjamin Disraeli |
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
Isaiah Berlin |
I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.
Steven Wright |
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett |
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Max Frisch |
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
Paul Theroux |
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B.F. Skinner |
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally Kempton |
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
Scott Adams |
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
Josh Billings |
If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
Yogi Berra |
It's deja vu all over again.
Yogi Berra |
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
Yogi Berra |
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra |
Never answer an anonymous letter.
Yogi Berra |
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Pablo Casals |
I am not worried about the deficit. It's big enough to take care of itself.
Ronald Reagan |
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
Patrick Henry |
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
Steven Spielberg |
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown |
Those who love peace must learn to organize as well as those who love war.
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
Edna Woolman Chase |
For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.
Gloria Borger |
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
Joyce Kilmer |
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handyman with a sense of humus.
E.B. White |
Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.
Irv Kupcinet |
We will not have peace by afterthought.
Norman Cousins |
If you want peace, you must work for justice.
Pope Paul VI |
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeanette Rankin |
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
James Baldwin |
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
Steven Wright |
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus |
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan |
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John F Kennedy |
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
The trouble with law is lawyers.
Clarence Darrow |
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo |
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
Buck Henry |
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith |
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Simon Cameron |
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
Dorothy Parker |
