I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain 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 "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Government During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Government
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana 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 "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Government People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Government
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Government "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Government
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Government Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) 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. Government
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Government The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Government
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Government The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein >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 Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Government
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Government Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Government
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Government A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Government
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Government When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Government
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Government In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law 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 I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Government
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Government Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Government
