If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a By County "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. By County
"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 A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) By County Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) By County
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time By County Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens By County
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli By County He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) By County
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By County "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams By County
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell By County Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) By County
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce By County "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead By County
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. By County Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple By County
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) By County Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne By County
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) By County "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer By County
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung By County I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes By County
