2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Government The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Government
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Government Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Government
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! 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 only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Government I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Government
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Government
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Government The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Government
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "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) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Government "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Government
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Government "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers 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 Government
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Government I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Government
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Government I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Government
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Government It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Government
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Government 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 Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Government
