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We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Government "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Government
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Government "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Government Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Government
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Government The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Government
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous 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 "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Government I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Government
My other wife is beautiful. My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Government Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Government
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Government Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Government
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Government The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Government
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Government Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Government
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Government >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Government
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Government Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Government
