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If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) East Cambridgeshire District In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry East Cambridgeshire District
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings East Cambridgeshire District "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais East Cambridgeshire District
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous East Cambridgeshire District He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben East Cambridgeshire District
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland East Cambridgeshire District Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. East Cambridgeshire District
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy East Cambridgeshire District I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) East Cambridgeshire District
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane East Cambridgeshire District "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins East Cambridgeshire District
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal 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 East Cambridgeshire District "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken East Cambridgeshire District
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada East Cambridgeshire District Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln East Cambridgeshire District
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. 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 "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "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 "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) East Cambridgeshire District "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith East Cambridgeshire District
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley East Cambridgeshire District Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short East Cambridgeshire District
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde East Cambridgeshire District Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy East Cambridgeshire District
