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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Folk Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Folk
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Folk "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Folk
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Folk Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Folk
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Folk See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Folk
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 It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Folk Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Folk
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 Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Folk Marriage is a rest period between romances. Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Folk
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Folk And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Folk
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Folk "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Folk
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Folk I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Folk
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Folk The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Folk
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Folk "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Folk
