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CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Counties Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Counties
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Counties Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Counties
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Counties Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Counties
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Counties No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Counties
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Counties Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Counties
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Counties Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Counties
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Counties "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Counties
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Counties A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Counties
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Counties "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Counties
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Counties Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Counties
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Counties "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Counties
