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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Regional In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Regional
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Regional "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Regional
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Regional Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Regional
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Regional I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Regional
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Regional Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Regional
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Regional "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Regional
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 "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Regional Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Regional
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Regional Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Regional
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Regional The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Regional
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Regional "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Regional
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Regional Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Regional
