1. I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
    William J. Clinton
  2. Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
    P. J. O'Rourke
  3. A picture is worth a thousand words.
    Napoleon Bonaparte
  4. I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a 'deserter.' What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar, and a functional illiterate. And he poops his pants.
    Michael Moore
  5. It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
    Josh Billings
  6. Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
  7. I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
    H. L. Mencken
  8. I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
    Winston Churchill
  9. He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
    Emily Dickinson
  10. As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
    Henry Ford
  11. I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
    Abraham Lincoln
  12. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
    Albert Einstein
  13. For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.
    James Brady
  14. A woman named Feinstra brought her husband to trial for childhood sexual abuse against their daughter. They won that trial. He went to jail. She and her daughter lost their home because he had mortgaged their house for his lawyer's fees.
    Patricia Ireland
  15. I think President Bush is way out of line and I don't think he speaks for all Republicans. He doesn't speak for me.
    Charles Evers
  16. Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  17. Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
    Mark Twain
  18. I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
    Susan B. Anthony
  19. A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
    Jane Austen
  20. The possible's slow fuse is lit, by the Imagination.
    Emily Dickinson
  21. I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
    H. L. Mencken
  22. Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
    James Joyce
  23. Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
    George Washington
  24. Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.
    Henry A. Kissinger
  25. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
    William Faulkner
  26. It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
    Grover Cleveland
  27. Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
  28. The entire Islamic world condemned Iran. Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, there is massive Islamic condemnation of the United States.
    Jimmy Carter
  29. Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
    Plato
  30. Go, and never darken my towels again.
    Groucho Marx
  31. "...the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give."
    Eleanor Roosevelt


    1. All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
      John F Kennedy
    2. Although the world is full of suffering,it is also full of the overcoming of it.
      Helen Keller
    3. I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.
      Diane Sawyer
    4. A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
      Henry James
    5. I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
      Winston Churchill
    6. If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
      Jean Kerr
    7. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
      Thomas Paine
    8. A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
      Frederick Douglas
    9. A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with anoptimist.
      Elbert Hubbard
    10. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
      Emily Dickinson
    11. Imagine the Creator as a stand up commedian - and at once the world becomes explicable.
      H. L. Mencken
    12. All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
      Plato
    13. I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
      Helen Keller
    14. It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
      Denis Waitley
    15. And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
      John F. Kennedy
    16. Democracy is the road to socialism.
      Karl Marx
    17. Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
      Henry James
    18. Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
      -- William Penn
    19. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
      -- Publilius Syrus
    20. I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together."
      Mark Twain
    21. I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.
      Dean Acheson
    22. A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
      Elbert Hubbard
    23. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
      Thomas A. Edison
    24. Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
      Abraham Lincoln
    25. I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
      Mickey Mantle
    26. Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
      Albert Einstein
    27. The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
      Bonnie Raitt
    28. Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
      William J. Clinton
    29. Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.
      Richard M. Nixon
    30. He is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
      Adlai E. Stevenson
    31. Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
      Abraham Lincoln


      1. I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
        Ernest Hemingway
      2. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
        Dorothy Parker
      3. I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
        Winston Churchill
      4. Don't be "consistent" but be simple true.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes
      5. I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
        Dwight D. Eisenhower
      6. The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
        Dean Acheson
      7. Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
        Albert Einstein
      8. Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.
        Andrew Carnegie
      9. The future comes one day at a time.
        Dean Acheson
      10. Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
        Groucho Marx
      11. As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
        H. L. Mencken
      12. A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes
      13. Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes
      14. I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
        -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991
      15. Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
        Tallulah Bankhead
      16. I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
        Theodore Roosevelt
      17. A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
        Dorothy Parker
      18. Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
        Oscar Wilde
      19. All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
        John F. Kennedy
      20. A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'.
        Woody Allen
      21. Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
        Lucille Ball
      22. Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
        Theodore Roosevelt
      23. I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
        Winston Churchill
      24. If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
        Dwight David Eisenhower
      25. I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
        Ernest Hemingway
      26. Learn to think continentally.
        Alexander Hamilton
      27. You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
        Jimmy Carter
      28. As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.
        Richard M. Nixon
      29. It is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
        George Washington
      30. We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
        Jimmy Carter