Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch 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. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Deux-Sevres "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Deux-Sevres
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Deux-Sevres 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 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 God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Deux-Sevres
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Deux-Sevres 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 "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Deux-Sevres
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi 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 I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Deux-Sevres Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Deux-Sevres
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Deux-Sevres In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Deux-Sevres
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Deux-Sevres Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Deux-Sevres
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Deux-Sevres A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Deux-Sevres
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Deux-Sevres If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Deux-Sevres
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Deux-Sevres 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 "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Deux-Sevres
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards 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 Deux-Sevres "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Deux-Sevres
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Deux-Sevres "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Deux-Sevres
