Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) D Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) D
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash 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 Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. D 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 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost D
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) 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 "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu D "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) D
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle D It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland D
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) 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 D "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard D
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous D "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara D
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) D The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. D
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe D All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) D
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. D We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. D
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses D In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President D
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot D Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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