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Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Stresa "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Stresa
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Stresa There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Stresa
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Stresa The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Stresa
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Stresa I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Stresa
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Stresa One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Stresa
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Stresa When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Stresa
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Stresa "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Stresa
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Stresa I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Stresa
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Stresa "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Stresa
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Stresa Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Stresa
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Stresa And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Stresa
