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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 I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Skiing and Snowboarding There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Skiing and Snowboarding
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Skiing and Snowboarding Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Skiing and Snowboarding
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Skiing and Snowboarding Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Skiing and Snowboarding
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Skiing and Snowboarding "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Skiing and Snowboarding
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Skiing and Snowboarding "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Skiing and Snowboarding
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Skiing and Snowboarding People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Skiing and Snowboarding
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Skiing and Snowboarding History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Skiing and Snowboarding
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Skiing and Snowboarding The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Skiing and Snowboarding
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, 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 "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Skiing and Snowboarding Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Skiing and Snowboarding
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Skiing and Snowboarding It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Skiing and Snowboarding
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Skiing and Snowboarding "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
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