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If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Political Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Political
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Political For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) 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 Political
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Political I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Political
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Political If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Political
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Political Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Political
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "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 Political "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Political
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Political Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Political
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Political Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Political
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Political Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Political
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 "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Political All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Political
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Political No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Political
