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Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Books An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Books
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei What's new? Most of my wife. "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Books "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Books
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Books Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Books
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Books "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Books
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Books "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Books
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Books To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Books
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Books When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Books
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Books "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Books
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Books Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Books
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Books Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Books
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Books Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Books
