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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) 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 He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Press Agencies The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Press Agencies
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Press Agencies Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Press Agencies
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Press Agencies This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Press Agencies
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Press Agencies Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Press Agencies
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Press Agencies When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Press Agencies
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Press Agencies "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Press Agencies
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Press Agencies Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat He who laughs last thinks slowest.
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Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "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) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Press Agencies Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Press Agencies
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Press Agencies The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Press Agencies
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Press Agencies Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Press Agencies
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Press Agencies blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Press Agencies
