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Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Legislature I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Legislature
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Legislature The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Legislature
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) 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 He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Legislature "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Legislature If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Legislature
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Legislature Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Legislature
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Legislature Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Legislature
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Legislature "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Legislature
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Legislature A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Legislature
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Legislature Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Legislature
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Legislature The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Legislature
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Legislature Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Legislature
