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- Von Clausewitz When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Somme Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Somme
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Somme This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Somme
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Somme Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Somme
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Somme My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Somme
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Somme blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Somme
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman 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 The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Somme And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Somme
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Somme Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Somme
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Somme My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Somme
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Somme Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie 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
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The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Somme The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Somme
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Somme Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Somme
