"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Y "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Y
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Y Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Y
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford 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, Y Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Y
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Y "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) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Y
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Y And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Y
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Y Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Y
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau 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 When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Y Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Y
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Y Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Y
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Y When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Y
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Y I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Y
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Y The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery 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
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