Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Hassloch I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Hassloch
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Hassloch In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Hassloch
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Hassloch "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Hassloch
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Hassloch If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Hassloch
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) 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 God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Hassloch 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 The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Hassloch
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Hassloch You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Hassloch
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Hassloch My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett 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 Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Hassloch
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Hassloch True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Hassloch
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Hassloch "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Hassloch
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Hassloch Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Hassloch
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? 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 Hassloch Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Hassloch
