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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Politics MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Politics
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Politics When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Politics
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Politics "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Politics
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Politics "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Politics No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Politics
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Politics Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Politics
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Politics Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Politics
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Politics All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Politics
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Politics Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Politics
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Politics "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Politics
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Politics Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Politics
