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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) 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 Television "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Television
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Television "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Television
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "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') Television I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein 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 Television
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Television "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "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) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Television
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Television "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "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) Television
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Television I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Television
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Television "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Television
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Television "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Television
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Television My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Television
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Television "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Television
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Television 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 Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Television
