Thought For Martin, Harper, Duceppe and Layton: Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.  Walter Bagehot

Thought For Goodenow and Bettman: Un a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive. Stephen Leacock

When you're talking, you're impaired. David Strayer

I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion. Jerome K. Jerome

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? Sydney J. Harris

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. Elisabeth Taylor

I  awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, old and new. Ralph Waldo Emerson

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.  Steven Wright

There's only so much you can do, bit if somebody doesn't give you a chance, there is nothing you can do.   Charlize Theron

 If you think your boss is stupid, remember:  YOU wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.   John Gotti

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. e.e. cummings

The factory of the future will have only two employees.  A man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. Warren G. Bennis

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. Fran Lebowitz

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.  Franklin D. Roosevelt

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.  William A. Ward

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.  Judith Martin

Our father, the SUN!!   It is now time you were rising.  I want to dance with you.  Blackfoot poem

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.  Mark Twain

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and 'ticks', meaning 'blood-sucking parasites'.  Larry Hardiman 

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts.  Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. Pierre Trudeau

To err is human --- and to blame it on a computer is even more so.  Roberto Orben

Four be the things I'd been better without:  love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.  Dorothy Parker 

My mom is a walking miracle...  Leonardo DiCaprio 

People seldom do what they believe in.  They do what is convenient, then repent.  Bob Dylan 

None of it right now is relief.  I'm so excited. I have a memory, an experience, that I'll remember the rest of my life. Phil Mickelson after 2004 Masters win

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language. Henry James

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world – it's nonviolence or nonexistence.  Martin Luther King Jr.

Make me immortal with a kiss. Christopher Marlowe 

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.  Mason Cooley

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. Chinese proverb

You have no fun, you.  Life must be boring. Jean Chrétien to a reporter

Is there no way out of the mind? Sylvia Plath

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. Spanish Proverb

By the time we've made it, we've had it.   Malcolm Forbes

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other; the whole world loses some of its radiance. Anatole Broyard

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take our eyes off your goal. Henry Ford

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.   Mark Twain

Liberty means responsibility. That is why men dread it.   George Bernard Shaw

I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue.   Molière

The difference in golf is that in golf you can't improve your lie. George Deukmejian

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.   John Stuart Mill

The crowd gives the leader new strength.   Evenius

The voters have spoken.  The bastards.  Morris Udall

Expect nothing.  Live frugally on surprise.  Alice Walker

The sky was too delicate a blue, the sea too green, the breeze to gentle. Paul Verlaine

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.  William Shakespeare

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.  George Bernard Shaw

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.  Alfred North Whitehead

When you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.  Lewis Carroll

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. Unknown

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.  Lily Tomlin

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.  Plato

Men are always sincere.  They change sincerities, that's all. Tristan Bernard

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.   Thomas Mann

A really busy person never knows how much s\he weights.   Edgar Watson Howe

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.  Lily Tomlin

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.   Don Marquis

When a thought is too week to be expressed, simply drop it.   Marquis de Vauvennarges

When you're through changing, you're through.   Bruce Barton

Life flows on within you and without you.   George Harrison

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.   Goethe

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.   Ken Hakuta

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.   George Satayana

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.   Fran Lebowits

Blue is the smoke of war, white the bones of men.   Tu Fu

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.   Arthur Schopenhauer

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.   Dan Quayle

I am a deeply superficial person.  Andy Warhol

Doubts are more cruel than the worst truths.   Molière

Marriage is a wonderful invention; then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.  Billy Connolly