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The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Tinahely Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Tinahely
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "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) Tinahely I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Tinahely
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Tinahely blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tinahely
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. 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 Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Tinahely Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Tinahely
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Tinahely The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Tinahely
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone 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 "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Tinahely Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Tinahely
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Tinahely The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Tinahely
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician ... 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
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Tinahely "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tinahely
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Tinahely "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Tinahely
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Tinahely The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Tinahely
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Tinahely The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tinahely
