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Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Financial Services Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Financial Services
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Financial Services "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) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Financial Services
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song 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 A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Financial Services blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Financial Services
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? 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 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 Financial Services 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 If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Financial Services
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Financial Services I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Financial Services
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Financial Services In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Financial Services
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Financial Services The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Financial Services
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln The church is the great lost and found department.
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Financial Services
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Financial Services "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Financial Services
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Financial Services "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Financial Services
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Financial Services Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Financial Services
