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He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Hoorn A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Hoorn
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Hoorn Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Hoorn
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Hoorn The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
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"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Hoorn "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) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Hoorn
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Hoorn A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "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) Hoorn
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Hoorn I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Hoorn
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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 A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Hoorn People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Hoorn
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Hoorn Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Hoorn
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "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 Hoorn We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Hoorn
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hoorn 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 Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Hoorn
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Hoorn It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Hoorn
