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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Government "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Government
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Government
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Government The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Government
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle 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 Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Government The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Government
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Government "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Government
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale 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 Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Government "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Government
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Government
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Government "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Government
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Government Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Government
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Government If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Government
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "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) Government My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Government
