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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Government "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Government
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Government The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Government
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 I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Government Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Government
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Government Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Government
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Government Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Government
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Government blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Government
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Government A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Government
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Government He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Government
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Government Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Government
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Government Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Government
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Government Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Government
