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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 If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do 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 The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams News and Media
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi News and Media "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. News and Media
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman News and Media The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) News and Media
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "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 Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. News and Media "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken News and Media
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley News and Media 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 "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 "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) News and Media
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell News and Media Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov News and Media
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman News and Media "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm News and Media
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 It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) News and Media Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) News and Media
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short News and Media I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison News and Media
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner News and Media blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell News and Media
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver 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 News and Media Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) News and Media
