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What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Mullion To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Mullion
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Mullion Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Mullion
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "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) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Mullion Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Mullion
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Mullion The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Mullion
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Mullion I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "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, Mullion
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Mullion Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mullion
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Mullion Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Mullion
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Mullion Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Mullion
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Mullion You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Mullion
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Mullion Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Mullion
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Mullion What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Mullion
