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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Rathdrum All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Rathdrum
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Rathdrum Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) 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 Rathdrum
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Rathdrum Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Rathdrum
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Rathdrum Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Rathdrum
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Rathdrum I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Rathdrum
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Rathdrum Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Rathdrum
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Rathdrum Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rathdrum
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Rathdrum "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Rathdrum
"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, Alice in Wonderland Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Rathdrum "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Rathdrum
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner 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 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rathdrum Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Rathdrum
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the 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 "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Rathdrum Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Rathdrum
