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-- Dave Barry At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
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"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner 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 I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Counties "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
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-- Martin Luther What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
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"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) More light!
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-- Agnes Repplier Counties Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Counties I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Counties
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Counties "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
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"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) 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 All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Counties "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Counties
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 "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
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-- Oscar Wilde A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Counties The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
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"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen 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 then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Counties "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Counties
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Counties All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Counties
