Gordon Haff's Last Word

By Weston Sager | Thursday, May 18, 2006

Politics is not an exact science.

—Otto Von Bismarck

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, “What will you have, sir?” And I said, “A glass of hemlock.”

—Ernest Hemingway

Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.

—Abraham Lincoln

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mine honor is my life, both grow in one,

Take honor from me, and my life is done.

—William Shakespeare

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

—Sun Tzu

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

—fortune cookie

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

—18th century English proverb

Fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper. You can make a hundred brilliant saves but the only shot that people remember is the one that gets past you.

—Paul Wilkinson

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

—Albert Einstein

When I’m good, I’m very, very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better.

—Mae West

It is better to waste one’s youth than to do nothing with it at all.

—Georges Courteline

No government ought to be without censors: and where the press is free, no one ever will.

—Thomas Jefferson

All I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

—Oscar Wilde

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

—Pope John Paul II

There are only two races on this planet—the intelligent and the stupid.

—John Fowles

Let the others have the charisma. I’ve got the class.

—George H. W. Bush

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

—Tom Clancy

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

—Roald Dahl

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has?

Answer: Commend her among her female acquaintances.

—Benjamin Franklin

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

—Ben Elton

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

—Lord Byron

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

—Salvador Dali

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

—Walt Disney

Gordon Haff's Last Word

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