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A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Government To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Government
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Government Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Government
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Government Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Government
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Government "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Government
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Government 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 hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Government
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Government Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Government
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Government
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Government "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Government
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Government I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Government
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Government "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Government
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Government The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Government
