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-- Dolly Parton "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp V The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board V
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "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 coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi V Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden V
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) V Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) V
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde V The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald V
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi V I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara V
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods V The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken V
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël V The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh V
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis V I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer V
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham V Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais V
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli V I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael V
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem V The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis V
