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Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Yarm "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie 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
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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Yarm Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Yarm
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Yarm May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Yarm
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock 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 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Yarm I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Yarm
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu 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 If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Yarm "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Yarm
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "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) Yarm He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Yarm
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Yarm "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Yarm
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald 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, I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Yarm "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Yarm
"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-) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Yarm Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Yarm
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Yarm There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh 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 Yarm
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Yarm The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Yarm
