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-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill El Tarter Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley El Tarter
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) El Tarter "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair El Tarter
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones El Tarter The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") El Tarter
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein El Tarter To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni El Tarter
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet El Tarter There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) El Tarter
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. El Tarter Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe El Tarter
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs El Tarter I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright El Tarter
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson El Tarter You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the El Tarter
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) El Tarter Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) El Tarter
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth El Tarter In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) El Tarter
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken El Tarter Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley El Tarter
