Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Local Government Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Local Government
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow 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 Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Local Government The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Local Government
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Local Government The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Local Government
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Local Government Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Local Government
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues 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 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Local Government My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Local Government
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Local Government "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Local Government
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) 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 "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Local Government I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Local Government
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Local Government Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Local Government
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Local Government Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Local Government
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Local Government Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Local Government
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Local Government I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Local Government
