We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Kurgan For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Kurgan
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "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) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Kurgan Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Kurgan
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Kurgan Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Kurgan
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Kurgan And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "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) Kurgan
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Kurgan "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Kurgan
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Kurgan "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Kurgan
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Kurgan 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 Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Kurgan
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Kurgan A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "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) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Kurgan
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Kurgan We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Kurgan
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Kurgan In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg 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 Kurgan
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Kurgan A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Kurgan
