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"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) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Waltham St Lawrence I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Waltham St Lawrence
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Waltham St Lawrence "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Waltham St Lawrence
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Waltham St Lawrence A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "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) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Waltham St Lawrence
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Waltham St Lawrence A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Waltham St Lawrence
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Waltham St Lawrence "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Waltham St Lawrence
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Waltham St Lawrence When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Waltham St Lawrence
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Waltham St Lawrence When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Waltham St Lawrence
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Waltham St Lawrence Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Waltham St Lawrence
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Waltham St Lawrence "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Waltham St Lawrence
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 Waltham St Lawrence There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Waltham St Lawrence
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson 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 A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Waltham St Lawrence Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Waltham St Lawrence
