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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Politics Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Politics
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Politics 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 If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Politics
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Politics A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Politics
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Politics Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Politics
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Politics "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso 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 Politics
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom 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
cr Politics The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Politics
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Politics The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Politics
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "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 Politics Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Politics
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Politics Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Politics
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Politics Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Politics
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 "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Politics "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Politics
