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"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly 4 I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw 4
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger 4 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 4
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 In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill 4 ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
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Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr 4 Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde 4
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins 4 What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) 4
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne 4 "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. 4
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams 4 The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die 4
"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 Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position 4 I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. 4
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard 4 Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells 4
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken 4 No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) 4
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown 4 You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein 4
