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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Tinn Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth 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 Tinn
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Tinn Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Tinn
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Tinn A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Tinn
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Tinn Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Tinn
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. 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 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 As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Tinn Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Tinn
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tinn "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Tinn
"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) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell 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 Tinn Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Tinn
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Tinn "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Tinn
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Tinn We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Tinn
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Tinn I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Tinn
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Tinn An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Tinn
