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"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Q Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Q
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Q What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Q
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Q An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Q
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Q Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain 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 "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Q
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Q A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Q
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Q Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Q
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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 Unha Q When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Q
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Q Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Q
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Q When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Q
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Q May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Q
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous 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" Q "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Q
