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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe 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 Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Government Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Government
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Government Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Government
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun 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 "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Government It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "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) Government
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Government If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Government
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Government "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Government
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Government 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 Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Government
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 "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Government Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Government
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Government blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Government
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Government Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Government
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Government Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Government The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government
