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No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. 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 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Government Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Government
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Government "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) 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 Government
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Government Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Government
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Government To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Government
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Government "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Government
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 Government "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Government
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "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) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Government We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Government
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Government Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Government
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Government The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Government
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Government The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Government
