If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Government Agencies "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) 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 The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Government Agencies
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Government Agencies I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Government Agencies
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Government Agencies To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Government Agencies
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Government Agencies I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Government Agencies
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Government Agencies Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Government Agencies
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "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 The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Government Agencies To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Government Agencies
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government Agencies The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Government Agencies
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Government Agencies Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire 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 Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Government Agencies
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Government Agencies Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Government Agencies
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Government Agencies I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Government Agencies
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Government Agencies Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Government Agencies
