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"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Government It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Government
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Government Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Government
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 Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Government "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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 To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Government
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Government
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Government Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Government
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Government
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All 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 Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Government Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Government
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Government True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Government
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Government To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Government
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Government In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Government
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Government The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Government
