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Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Foreign Languages He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Foreign Languages
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Foreign Languages We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Foreign Languages
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. 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 Foreign Languages "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Foreign Languages
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly 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 cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Foreign Languages For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Foreign Languages
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Foreign Languages To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 Foreign Languages
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Foreign Languages If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Foreign Languages
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Foreign Languages Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Foreign Languages
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Foreign Languages Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Foreign Languages
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Foreign Languages One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Foreign Languages
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, 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 Foreign Languages >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Foreign Languages
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Foreign Languages If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Foreign Languages
