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"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Government Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Government In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Government
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Government 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 Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Government
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) My other wife is beautiful. The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Government "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "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) Government
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Government 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 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 I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Government
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Government Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Government
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Government I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Government
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Government "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Government
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 "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Government Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Government
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Government Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Government
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Government No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Government
