quotes for winners

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard



Desert rains are usually so definitely demarked that the story of the man who washed his hands in the edge of an Arizona thunder shower without wetting his cuffs seems almost credible. ~Administration in the State of Arizona, U.S. public relief program, 1935-1943



If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. ~Charley Reese



There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ~Lady Blessington



Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. ~Moshe Dayan



Not all religion is to be found in the church, any more than all knowledge is found in the classroom. ~Author Unknown



History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies. ~Frederick Maurice Powicke, Three Lectures



In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ~Benjamin Franklin



The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes. ~Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up



Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. ~Dick Cavett



Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out. ~Princess Anne of Great Britain



For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. ~Richard P. Feynman



Marriage changes passion - suddenly you're in bed with a relative. ~Author Unknown



To ride a horse is to ride the sky. ~Author Unknown



The private lives of the ancients are now the public sport of the moderns. ~Ivor Brown



The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. ~Samuel Johnson



History... is, indeed, little more than the register of the 'crimes, follies, and misfortunes' of mankind. But what experience and history teach is this - that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. ~Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of History, "Introduction," 1807



If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. ~Jean Cocteau



A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., speech, Boston, 8 January 1897



No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity. ~Henry Van Dyke