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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "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 Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Home and Garden "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) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Home and Garden
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Home and Garden I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Home and Garden
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Home and Garden ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Home and Garden
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Home and Garden There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Home and Garden
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Home and Garden Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Home and Garden
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Home and Garden "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Home and Garden
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Home and Garden The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Home and Garden
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Home and Garden In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Home and Garden
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (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 Home and Garden Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Home and Garden
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Home and Garden Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Home and Garden
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Home and Garden The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Home and Garden
