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"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Magazines and E-zines We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Magazines and E-zines
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Magazines and E-zines I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Magazines and E-zines
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Magazines and E-zines "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Magazines and E-zines
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Magazines and E-zines I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Magazines and E-zines
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Magazines and E-zines When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Magazines and E-zines
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Magazines and E-zines Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner 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 Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Magazines and E-zines
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Magazines and E-zines That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Magazines and E-zines
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Magazines and E-zines Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous 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 Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Magazines and E-zines
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Magazines and E-zines We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Magazines and E-zines
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Magazines and E-zines Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Magazines and E-zines
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Magazines and E-zines "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Magazines and E-zines
