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Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Religion I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Religion
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Religion I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Religion
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Religion "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My other wife is beautiful. The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Religion
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Religion Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Religion
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Religion In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Religion
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "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) Religion The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Religion
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Religion Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Religion
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Religion I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Religion
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Religion Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Religion
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Religion Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Religion
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Religion There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Religion
