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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Government "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Government
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Government A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Government
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Government We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Government
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "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 I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "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') 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 Government Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Government
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Government Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Government
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Government I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Government
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Government If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Government
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Government "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Government
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Government What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Government
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Government If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Government
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Government I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Government
