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Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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-- Adlai Stevenson Ministries I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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-- Anatole France "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Ministries
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Ministries We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Ministries
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 Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Ministries There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Ministries
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
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-- Erma Bombeck "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Ministries
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) Ministries Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
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Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Ministries Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Ministries
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Ministries "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
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-- Anonymous Ministries
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
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-- Gerald Holton "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ministries If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Ministries
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Ministries In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Ministries
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 Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Ministries I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Ministries
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Ministries Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz 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 expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Ministries
