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. "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." The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Local Self-Government Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Local Self-Government
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Local Self-Government "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Local Self-Government
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Local Self-Government >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Local Self-Government
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Local Self-Government Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Local Self-Government
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Local Self-Government Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Local Self-Government
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Local Self-Government Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Local Self-Government
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Local Self-Government Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Local Self-Government
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Local Self-Government "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Local Self-Government
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 The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Local Self-Government Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Local Self-Government
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Local Self-Government What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Local Self-Government
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Local Self-Government "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Local Self-Government
