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The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Spinster: A bachelor's wife. A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Politics I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Politics
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Politics "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Politics
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Politics I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Politics
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Politics The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones My other wife is beautiful. As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Politics
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Politics It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Politics
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Politics A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Politics
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Politics "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Politics
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Politics Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Politics
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Politics To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Politics
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) 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) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Politics Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Politics
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Politics Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Politics
