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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Elections Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Elections
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Elections Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Elections
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Elections Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Elections
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Elections "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Elections
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Elections We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Elections
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Elections I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Elections
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Elections "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Elections
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Elections Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Elections
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Elections Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner 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 "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Elections
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman 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 "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Elections Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Elections
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Elections There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Elections
