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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Masonry "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Masonry
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Masonry The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Masonry
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Masonry What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Masonry
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Masonry A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Masonry
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Masonry Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous 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 He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Masonry
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Masonry We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Masonry
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Masonry "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Masonry
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Masonry I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Masonry
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Masonry "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Masonry
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Masonry It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Masonry
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal 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 "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Masonry "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
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