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Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Genealogy "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Genealogy
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Genealogy There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Genealogy
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Genealogy A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "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 Genealogy
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Genealogy Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Genealogy
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Genealogy I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Genealogy
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Genealogy I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Genealogy
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Genealogy The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Genealogy
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying 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 "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Genealogy Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Genealogy
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "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 "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genealogy I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Genealogy
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genealogy "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Genealogy
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Genealogy I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Genealogy
