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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Museums A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Museums
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Museums "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Museums
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 "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Museums "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Museums
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Museums Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Museums
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Museums "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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"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) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Museums Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Museums
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Museums What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Museums
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Museums The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Museums
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Museums The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Museums
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Museums You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Museums
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Museums "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Museums
