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"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Libraries Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Libraries
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Libraries "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Libraries
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Libraries "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Libraries
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Libraries blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Libraries
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Libraries The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Libraries
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Libraries I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Libraries
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Libraries "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Libraries
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Libraries 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 "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Libraries We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Libraries
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Libraries Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Libraries
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Libraries Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Libraries
