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-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Government Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Government
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Government Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Government
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Government "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Government
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Government Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Government
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Government The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Government
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Government If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone 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 Government
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Government Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Government
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Government As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Government
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Government "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Government
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Government This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Government
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Government Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "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) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
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