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Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Politics There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Politics
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Politics And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "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) Politics
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Politics Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Politics
"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) 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 Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Politics The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Politics
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Politics "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) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Politics
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Politics Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Politics
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Politics
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash 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 May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Politics It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Politics
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Politics "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Politics
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Politics The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Politics
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Politics Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Politics
