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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "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') Government The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Government
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Government If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Government
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Government Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Government
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Government First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Government
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Government "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Government Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Government
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Government "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Government
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Government "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Government
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Government "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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 Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Government
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Government Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Government
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Government The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Government
