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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Burghclere 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 Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Burghclere
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Unhappy One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Burghclere If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Burghclere
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Burghclere Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 Unhappy Burghclere
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Burghclere We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Burghclere
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Burghclere The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Burghclere
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Burghclere A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Burghclere
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Burghclere "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Burghclere
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "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) Burghclere I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Burghclere
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. 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
of Burghclere "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Burghclere
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Burghclere The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Burghclere
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Burghclere He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Burghclere
