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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Activism Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Activism
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Activism "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Activism
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Activism I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Activism
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward 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 If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Activism English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Activism
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Activism "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Activism
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Activism "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Activism
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Activism He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Activism
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Activism In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Activism
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Activism Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Activism
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Activism Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Activism
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 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 He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Activism Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Activism
