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Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Tiverton Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Tiverton
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "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) Tiverton Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. 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 Tiverton
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Tiverton Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tiverton
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous 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 Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Tiverton "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Tiverton
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tiverton 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 Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Tiverton
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Tiverton "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Tiverton
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Tiverton Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Tiverton
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Tiverton Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Tiverton
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Tiverton Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Tiverton
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Tiverton The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Tiverton
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Tiverton I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Tiverton
