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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Newspapers Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Newspapers
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Newspapers Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Newspapers
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 We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Newspapers Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Newspapers
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Newspapers 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 The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Newspapers
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Newspapers A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Newspapers
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Newspapers Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Newspapers
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem 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 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. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Newspapers "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Newspapers
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Newspapers Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Newspapers
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Newspapers "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Newspapers
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Newspapers A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Newspapers
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Newspapers "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 "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 Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Newspapers
