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"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Chat Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "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, ignorance, g There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Chat
"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) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Chat "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) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Chat
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Chat If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Chat
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Chat The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Chat
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Chat We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Chat
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Chat Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Chat
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) 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 Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Chat "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Chat
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi 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 If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Chat The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Chat
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Chat Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Chat
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Chat The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Chat
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "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) Chat Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Chat
