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The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Elections Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Elections
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Elections Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Elections
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "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) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Elections Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Elections
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Elections "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Elections
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Elections The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Elections
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Elections Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Elections
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed 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. "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Elections Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Elections
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Elections "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Elections
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Elections blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Elections
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins 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 All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Elections When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Elections
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Elections Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Elections
