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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "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) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
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-- Abraham Lincoln If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
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"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
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-- Rene Descartes Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Flowers and Gifts
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Flowers and Gifts Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Flowers and Gifts
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Flowers and Gifts Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Flowers and Gifts
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
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-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Flowers and Gifts Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
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-- Groucho Marx It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
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Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Flowers and Gifts The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Flowers and Gifts
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
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- Charles Dickens There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Flowers and Gifts MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Flowers and Gifts
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
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-- Thomas Jefferson "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) 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." ( You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Flowers and Gifts Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Flowers and Gifts
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Flowers and Gifts
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Flowers and Gifts It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
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