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"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock Ferrycarrig "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Ferrycarrig
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Ferrycarrig There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Ferrycarrig
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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-- Ed Howe Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Ferrycarrig
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ferrycarrig Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Ferrycarrig
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-- Gloria Leonard Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Ferrycarrig blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Ferrycarrig
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Ferrycarrig UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Ferrycarrig
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Ferrycarrig "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ferrycarrig
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ferrycarrig No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. 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 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Ferrycarrig
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Ferrycarrig "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Ferrycarrig
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Ferrycarrig Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
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those tiny toil Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Ferrycarrig
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Ferrycarrig He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Ferrycarrig
