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"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent 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. We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Government Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "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 Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson 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 Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Government In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Government
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Government
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Government Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Government
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Government Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Government
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Government "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Government
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Government
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Government "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Government
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Government The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Government
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Government "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Government
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Government Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Government
