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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Politics It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Politics
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Politics History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Politics
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Politics True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Politics
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Politics Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Politics
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Politics Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Politics
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Politics "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Politics
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Politics I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Politics
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Politics Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort 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 Politics
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Politics "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Politics
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Politics "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "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-) Politics
