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"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Legal Services Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Legal Services
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Legal Services The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Legal Services
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Legal Services "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Legal Services
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Legal Services Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "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 "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Legal Services
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Legal Services We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Legal Services
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di 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. Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Legal Services "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Legal Services
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd 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 Legal Services Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Legal Services
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) 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 Legal Services Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Legal Services
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Legal Services The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Legal Services
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Legal Services Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Legal Services
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 Unhappy A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Legal Services If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Legal Services
