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Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Doubs Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Doubs
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Doubs "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Doubs
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Doubs Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Doubs
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "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) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Doubs "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Doubs
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West 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 Doubs "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Doubs
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Doubs "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Doubs
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Doubs A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Doubs
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 When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Doubs "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "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) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Doubs A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Doubs
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Doubs Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Doubs
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Doubs Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Doubs
