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"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 J You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche J
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) J Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry J
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend J Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James J
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle J Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review J
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) J Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S J
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) 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
worse tha J A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette J
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous 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 We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi J "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken J
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje J Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost J
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) J 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 Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb J
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller J 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 Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire J
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner J I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe J
