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If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Braddan 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "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) Braddan
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Braddan Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Braddan
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Braddan Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Braddan
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Braddan The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Braddan
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Braddan I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Braddan
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Braddan "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Braddan
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Braddan Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Braddan
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Braddan "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Braddan
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Braddan When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Braddan
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) 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 Braddan "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Braddan
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Braddan Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine 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. Braddan
