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"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) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller 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 T If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous T
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "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) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry T "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters T
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g T A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg 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
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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. T A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th T
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr 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 The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. T "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton T
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken T "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) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
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The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt T Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e T
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 It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown 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 T Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry T
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H T The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde T
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod T "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson T
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer T To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
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