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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Government You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Government
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Government "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 He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Government
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government 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 When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Government
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Government The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Government
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Government A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Government
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Government Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Government When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Government
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Government "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Government
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Government A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Government
Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Government You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Government
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) 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 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Government To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Government
