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speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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-- Anonymous Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Academic Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Academic
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Academic The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Academic
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 blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "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 blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
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-- P. J. O'Rourke Academic
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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-- Sigmund Freud It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
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-- Damon Runyan When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Academic
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
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-- Maya Angelou Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Academic "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
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-- Amelia Earhart Academic
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
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-- John Von Neuman In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Academic
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-- Thomas Jefferson "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
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You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Academic
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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-- Scottish Proverb Academic "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
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-- Russell Green "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Academic
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Academic Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Academic
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Academic "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Academic
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
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-- Brian Pickrell This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
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-- Will Rogers "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Academic
