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My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Magazines and E-zines Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Magazines and E-zines
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Magazines and E-zines The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Magazines and E-zines
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Magazines and E-zines When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Magazines and E-zines
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Magazines and E-zines "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Magazines and E-zines
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin 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 I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright My other wife is beautiful. Magazines and E-zines The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Magazines and E-zines
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Magazines and E-zines 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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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Magazines and E-zines
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Magazines and E-zines The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Magazines and E-zines
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic 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 Magazines and E-zines My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
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Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "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 "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Magazines and E-zines 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 You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Magazines and E-zines
"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) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Magazines and E-zines Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Magazines and E-zines
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Magazines and E-zines 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 He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Magazines and E-zines
