"You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly posess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality."
-- Florida Pier Scott-Maxwell

"If you continually give, you will continually have."
-- Fortune Cookie

"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."
-- Will Rogers

"One must be something, in order to do something."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think."
-- Dorothy Parker

"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."
-- Robertson Davies

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a new door."
-- Milton Berle, on the chalkboard at Giorgios Country Grill, this morning.

"Don't ask, don't say. Everything lies in silence."
-- Fortune Cookie

"You can't think and hit at the same time."
-- Yogi Berra

"I'd like my legacy to be that Teacher's College continues to realize
its legacy, to be the great education school not only through its
research and contributions to knowledge to help us understand and
improve American education, but also to directly put those ideas ro
work."
-- Dr. Susan H. Fuhrman, newly appointed president of Columbia
University's Teacher's College.

"I ask that you not try this yourself. This is a deadly, trying test of
endurance."
-- David Blaine, Drowned Alive, at Lincoln Center last night.

"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece".
-- GK Chesterton

"I do know enough to know I need help."
-- Patrick J. Kennedy, Congressman

"Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation".
-- Kin Hubbard

"I don't really trust a sane person."
-- Lyle Alzado

"I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth."
-- Chico Marx

"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'"
-- Sydney J. Harris

"Like many natural beauties, New York is effortlessly photogenic. It has fabulous bones and hardly any bad angles."
-- Holland Cotter, Art critic for The New York Times.

"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?"
-- Harry Shearer

"Stay away from high tech stuff. Quill pens do not need a product support line".
-- Roger Pollack, of Eclectica.