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-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Directories An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Directories
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Directories A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Directories
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Directories "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Directories
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Directories Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Directories Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Directories
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Directories I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Directories
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Directories He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Directories
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 Directories He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Directories
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Directories My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Directories
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Directories "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Directories
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Directories We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Directories
