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"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) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "'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, Through the Looking Glass) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Expatriate Life Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Expatriate Life
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Expatriate Life 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 Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Expatriate Life
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Expatriate Life "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Expatriate Life
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Expatriate Life "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Expatriate Life
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Expatriate Life To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Expatriate Life
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Expatriate Life The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Expatriate Life
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Expatriate Life The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Expatriate Life
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Expatriate Life Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Expatriate Life
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Expatriate Life It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Expatriate Life
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) 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 I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Expatriate Life blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Expatriate Life
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) 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 Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Expatriate Life Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Expatriate Life
