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My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Associations All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Associations
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Associations "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Associations
"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 more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Associations Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Associations
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Associations Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Associations
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Associations Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Associations
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Associations I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford 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 Associations
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Associations What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Associations
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Associations A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Associations
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Associations "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Associations
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Associations There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Associations
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Associations In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Associations
