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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan 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 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 An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Government
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 Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Government I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Government
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Government Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Government
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Government
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Government He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Government
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Government It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Government
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik 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, Government "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Government
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Government "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Government
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." 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 Government A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Government
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Government Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Government
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Government You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Government
