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"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Trencin The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Trencin
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Trencin I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Trencin
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Trencin When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Trencin
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Trencin You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Trencin
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) 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 Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Trencin I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Trencin
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Trencin Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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) Trencin
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Trencin "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Trencin
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Trencin Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Trencin
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Trencin If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Trencin
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Trencin The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Trencin
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Trencin "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Trencin
