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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Gotland County "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Gotland County
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Gotland County "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Gotland County
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Gotland County Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Gotland County
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Gotland County History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Gotland County
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Gotland County "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Gotland County
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Gotland County Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Gotland County
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Gotland County "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Gotland County
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Gotland County I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Gotland County
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Gotland County It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gotland County
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Gotland County Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Gotland County
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 What's new? Most of my wife. Gotland County "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Gotland County
