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"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Venice I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Venice
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Venice If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Venice
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Venice "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Venice
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Venice 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 The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Venice
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Venice Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Venice
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Venice We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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 Venice
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Venice "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Venice
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Venice When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Venice
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "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) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Venice For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Venice
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Venice There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Venice
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Venice "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Venice
