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An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland Government To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber Government It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller Government Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers Government Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk 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 Government 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. -- Winston Churchill "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Government You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this bre Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill 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 Government I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Government I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Government "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth Man and wife make one fool. Government Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh Government Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Government "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Government Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X 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 Government "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno 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 A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers 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 Government A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Government Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens Government Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Government Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Government I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Government All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde "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) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford Government A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. Government
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