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In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Gozo "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Gozo
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Gozo The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Gozo
What's new? Most of my wife. As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Gozo When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Gozo
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "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 Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Gozo When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Gozo
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Gozo A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Gozo
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Gozo "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gozo
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi 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 It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Gozo No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Gozo
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck 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 Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Gozo "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) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Gozo
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. >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 "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Gozo What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Gozo
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Gozo "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 The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Gozo
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Gozo Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Gozo
