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"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Botanical Gardens In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Botanical Gardens
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Botanical Gardens ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Botanical Gardens
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Botanical Gardens She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Botanical Gardens
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine 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 had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Botanical Gardens >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Botanical Gardens
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Botanical Gardens Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Botanical Gardens
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Botanical Gardens The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Botanical Gardens
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Botanical Gardens "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Botanical Gardens
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Botanical Gardens Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Botanical Gardens
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Botanical Gardens The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Botanical Gardens
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard 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 Botanical Gardens "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Botanical Gardens
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Botanical Gardens Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Botanical Gardens
