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"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Government Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh 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. Government
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "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) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Government God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Government
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Government The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Government
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Government Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "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) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Government
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Government For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Government
"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) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Government Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Government
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Government He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Government
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Government I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Government
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Government "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Government
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Government Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Government
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Government A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Government
