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"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Chess The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chess
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Chess "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Chess
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Chess I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Chess
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Chess Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Chess
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Chess What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Chess
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Chess Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Chess
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Chess "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Chess
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Chess I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Chess
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Chess I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Chess
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan May you never leave your marriage alive. Chess "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Chess
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "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) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Chess "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Chess
