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Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Organisations Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Organisations
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Organisations Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Organisations
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Organisations Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Organisations
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Organisations Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Organisations
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organisations You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Organisations
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Organisations "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Organisations
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Organisations "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Organisations
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Organisations Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Organisations
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Organisations Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Organisations
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Organisations Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Organisations
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Organisations The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Organisations
