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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Iraklia The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Iraklia
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Iraklia The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Iraklia As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Iraklia
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Iraklia "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Iraklia
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "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) "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) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Iraklia Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer 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
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If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) 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 Iraklia Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Iraklia
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Iraklia "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Iraklia
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Iraklia A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Iraklia
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Iraklia The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 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 Iraklia
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Iraklia Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" 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 The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Iraklia
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Iraklia There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Iraklia
