Dec 24: "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes!" -- unknown

Dec 21: "The wisdom of hindsight should come with a time machine." -- me, 12/20/2002 to my dad

Dec 19: "If God intended for us to understand each other, we wouldn't have voices." -- me, some months ago

Dec 15: "To love and lose is the most wasteful experience life has to offer." -- me, 12/15/2002

Dec 7: "If God had been a liberal, we'd have had the Ten Suggestions." -- Rush Limbaugh

Nov 28: "You didn't think that I could change; I proved you wrong and walked away. Only I control the way that I reply... I only wish that I was someone else to you." - Course of Nature, Superkala, "Someone Else To You"

Nov 15: "If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself." -- Max Ehrmann

Nov 12: "I've been battling the system for 10 years, and now I am the system. Is this a great country or what?" -- Senator Dean Barkley

Nov 11: "It's somehow fitting that the war is likely to start on the birthday of the original President George W." -- James Taranto

Nov 7: "Is this the Bushification of America?!" -- Dan Rather, (obviously not) in a fit of bias, less than pleased with election results

Nov 7: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

Nov 7: "Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have." -- Thomas Jefferson

Nov 7: "Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security." -- William F. Buckley

Nov 5: "It's like Florida 2000 all over the place!" -- me

Nov 3: "We can argue about the marginal tax rates after we've ensured that our civilization survives." -- James Lileks

Oct 31: "One of the requirements of a healthy party is that it renews itself. You can't keep running Walter Mondale for everything." -- Walter Mondale, refusing to run for U.S. Senate in 1989

Oct 29: "The eternal truths that have inspired religion(s) have survived its frequent institutional follies." -- Hudson Smith, The Illustrated World's Religions

Oct 22: "Dreams were never meant to come true -- that's why they're dreams." -- me

Oct 21: "The only spiteful goal I have ever set is to rub my happiness in the faces of all who thought it was impossible." -- me

Oct 16: "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." -- Bertrand Russell

Oct 14: "The difference between saying what you mean and meaning what you say is your reaction to something unexpected." -- me

Oct 13: "If God intended for us to understand each other, we wouldn't have voices." -- me

Oct 11: "Everybody needs somebody; you're not the only one." -- Guns n Roses, "November Rain"

Oct 8: "Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sep 28: "Cold objectivity, without the barometer of emotion, deprives us of our moral compass." -- Amazon.com Review of Martha C. Nussbaum's Upheavals of Thought

Sep 20: 'Just as "tolerance" doesn't mean "abdication of one's value system in order to accept another's", neither does "understanding" mean "agreement".' - Tommy Thompson

Sep 17: "...and I laugh at myself / while the tears roll down / cause it's the world I know -- it's the world I know." -- Collective Soul, "The World I Know", 1995

Sep 6: "Politicians are like diapers: both need to be changed regularly and for the same reason." -- modified, unknown origin

Sep 4: "Grass was made to be walked on -- it's the sidewalk that doesn't belong there." -- me

Aug 30: "Isn't it funny how people say they'll never grow up to be their parents, then one day they look in the mirror and they're moving aircraft carriers into the Gulf region?" -- The Onion

Aug 25: "If it's possible, it's going to happen. If it's impossible, it's going to take a little longer." -- unknown

Aug 12: "If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got." -- anonymous

Aug 3: "Until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, cities will never have rest from evils." -- Plato

Jul 23: "I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting, but it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously." -- Douglas Adams

Jul 17: "We have fun pretending that we made that move up." -- Dalila Piña

Jul 8: "I always thought I was a Liberal. I came up terribly surprised when I found out that I was a Right-Wing Conservative Extremist." -- John Wayne

Jul 1: "Don't let your failures go to your heart, but don't let your successes go to your head." -- Daphne Reid

Jun 17: "To thine own self be true, for you are all you really know." -- me

Jun 11: "People are upset when he agrees with the president (he mustn't), and when he disagrees with the president (again, he mustn't)." -- Balint Vazsonyi

May 11: "Our fears regarding taxation revolve around the potential for increased corruption, as is over the case when additional layers of bureaucracy are positioned between those with power and those without." -- James Luceno in Cloak of Deception

May 6: "There's this thing that some people call 'perfection'; we call it 'Heather'." -- Mike Yanosy

May 3: "Homework's purpose is to reinforce knowledge. If knowledge doesn't need reinforcement, homework is needless intrusion." -- me

Apr 21: "Why shouldn't he break Babe Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin!" -- Casey Stengel

Apr 16: "This is the real Gore, on the assumption that such a creature exists independent of bare-knuckled ambition." -- Andrew Sullivan

Apr 14: "The value or worth of a man is, as of all other things, his price." -- Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan

Apr 13: "I never see any black twins. What's the deal here?" -- George Carlin in Napalm and Silly Putty

Apr 4: "Civilization is the process of setting man free from men." -- Ayn Rand in The Fountainhead

Apr 1: "It's not easy being a Dick, especially at the local library." -- Jennifer D'Angelo

Mar 27: "Life is one crazy thing after another. Love is two crazy things after each other." -- Jacqueline Gulledge

Mar 22: "Did you ever feel like the whole world is a black tuxedo and you're a pair of brown shoes?" -- George Gobel on the "Tonight Show"

Mar 17: "When nighttime electrical lighting was new, it was the poor who burned common candles. When electricity became easily accessible and practically free, candles at dinner became a sign of luxury." -- Kevin Kelly

Mar 13: "I am convinced that the larger incomes of the country would actually yield more revenue to the government if the basis of taxation were scientifically revised downward." -- President Calvin Coolidge, 1924.

Mar 12: "I'm gonna get a facelift, and then I'm gonna go over to Fox News." -- David Letterman, 3/11/2002

Mar 10: "I'm not letting ignorance stop me from expressing an opinion!" -- Glenn Reynolds

Mar 4: "I like my wine to match the color of my pee, not my blood." -- Nick Disabato

Feb 24: "I flatter myself that I am intelligent enough to realize that there are those who are smarter than me. They are the ones who concern me." -- Alan Dean Foster in Star Wars: The Approaching Storm

Feb 22: "Whoever said the G-spot is an urban legend is a jerkoff. It's there, in full effect, and deserves glowing attention. So, find it." -- Rachel Klein

Feb 19: "If [Democrats] succeed [with campaign finance reform], look for the appearance of John Galt around 2010 or so." -- Neal Boortz

Feb 11: "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -- Galileo Galilei

Feb 10: "That woman has a role in this house and that's to put food on the table!" -- Claire Ragsdale

Feb 4: "Many believe that governments can spend their way out of a recession. Never mind that Argentina and Japan met disaster following that course." -- George Reisman

Jan 23: "How fair is it to allow those who pay little or no taxes to use the political process to decide how much taxes others should pay?" -- Walter Williams

Jan 21: "The most incomprehensible fact about the universe is that it is comprehensible." -- Albert Einstein

Jan 19: "I have a problem with people that consider themselves more black than human, more hispanic than American, or more upper-class than part of society." -- Rose

Jan 17: "I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few." -- Benjamin Disraeli, former British Prime Minister

Jan 12: "The difference between democratic republicanism and socialist communism is the difference between protecting and granting freedom and liberty." -- me

Jan 9: "Just when I convince myself that I am a superior being, I walk into a door." -- American proverb (hah)

Jan 5: "What's more important, the country or my political party? I stand here as a proud party man, but let me tell you something, the country is far more important." -- President George W. Bush (to a Republican audience!)

Jan 1: "The most dangerous perception of all may be that one's own side has an exclusive claim to either the truth or patriotism." -- Allen Pizzey