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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Government Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Government
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Government Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Government
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Government Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Government
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Government "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Government
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Government "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Government
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Government "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Government Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Government
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Government The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Government
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Government The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Government
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Government "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Government
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Government Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Government
