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We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Government I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Government
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Government "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Government
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Government An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "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) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Government
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 We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Government If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Government
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Government True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Government
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Government Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Government
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown May you never leave your marriage alive. "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it 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 Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Government "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Government
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Government You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Government
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Government If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Government
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl 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, Government Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Government
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Government To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Government
