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I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Government "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Government
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Government Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Government
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Government University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger 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 Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Government
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Government "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Government
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Government Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Government
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Government "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Government
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Government After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Government
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Government Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Government
My other wife is beautiful. In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Government It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Government This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Government
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Government A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Government
