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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin 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 Government The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain 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 Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Government To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Government
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Government Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Government
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George 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 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Government These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Government
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Government "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Government
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Government I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Government
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Government Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein 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 The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Government
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Government 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 "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Government
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth 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 In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Government The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown 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 I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Government
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Government Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Government
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "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) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Government In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Government
