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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Tuam Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 Tuam
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Tuam Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Tuam
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tuam The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Tuam
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Tuam Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Tuam
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Tuam Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Tuam
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Tuam "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Tuam
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 "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Tuam Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Tuam
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Tuam He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Tuam
"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) 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 Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Tuam "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Tuam
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Tuam Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Tuam
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Tuam "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Tuam
