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"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Caucasian If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Caucasian
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Caucasian With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Caucasian
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Caucasian He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Caucasian
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Caucasian To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Caucasian
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Caucasian Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Caucasian
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Caucasian I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Caucasian
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Caucasian "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Caucasian
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 "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "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) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Caucasian "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Caucasian
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Caucasian the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Caucasian
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Caucasian When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "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 Caucasian
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Caucasian A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Caucasian
