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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Government Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "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) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "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 "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Government Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Government
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Government Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Government
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Government "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Government
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 The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Government Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Government
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Government "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Government
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. 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 Government It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Government If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Government
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Government Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Government
