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I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Ascot One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Ascot
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Ascot If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ascot
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Ascot I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Ascot
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Ascot If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Ascot
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Ascot 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 Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Ascot
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Ascot "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Ascot
Anyway, 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,
ign What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Ascot "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Ascot
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ascot Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Ascot
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Ascot Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Ascot
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Ascot It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous 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 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Ascot
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Ascot A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Ascot
