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"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Military Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Military
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Military Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Military
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Military What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Military
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Military If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Military
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "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 When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Military Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Military
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Military Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Military
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Military Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Military
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Military Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Military
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Military Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Military
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo 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 Military Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Military
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Military "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Military
