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"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Guides These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Guides
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Guides A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Guides
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Guides Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Guides
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "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' There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Guides
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Guides 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 Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry 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 Guides He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
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"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Guides The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Guides
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Guides If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Guides
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Guides It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Guides
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Guides If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Guides
"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 We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Guides Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Guides
