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The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Genealogy Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Genealogy
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Genealogy The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett 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 "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Genealogy
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Genealogy My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Genealogy
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Genealogy "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Genealogy
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Genealogy Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Genealogy
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Genealogy Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Genealogy
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Genealogy "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Genealogy
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Genealogy I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Genealogy
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Genealogy Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Genealogy
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Genealogy "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Genealogy
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Genealogy "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "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) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Genealogy
