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"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Lake Geneva Region Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Lake Geneva Region
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Lake Geneva Region Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Lake Geneva Region
"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) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Lake Geneva Region "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lake Geneva Region
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Lake Geneva Region And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Lake Geneva Region
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lake Geneva Region If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Lake Geneva Region
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Lake Geneva Region You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Lake Geneva Region
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Lake Geneva Region Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "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) Lake Geneva Region
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Lake Geneva Region "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Lake Geneva Region
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Lake Geneva Region "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Lake Geneva Region
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Lake Geneva Region Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Lake Geneva Region
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Lake Geneva Region Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Lake Geneva Region
