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They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Politics There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Politics
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Politics The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Politics
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Politics A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Politics
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Politics Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Politics
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Politics
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Politics I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Politics
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Politics I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Politics
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Politics Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Politics
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Politics "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Politics
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Politics "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Politics
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington 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 The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Politics The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Politics
