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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder English Language Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST English Language
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson English Language ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) 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 Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl English Language Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) English Language
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. English Language It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau English Language
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde English Language 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 We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) English Language
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic English Language "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All English Language
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) English Language "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig English Language
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) English Language Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler English Language
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) 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 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle English Language "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb English Language
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "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) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston English Language "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) English Language
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) English Language Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi English Language
