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-- Alphonse Allais By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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-- Smith & Jones Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Weather
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Weather People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Weather
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
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-- Anon. "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Weather The best defense is a good offense.
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- Frank Lloyd Wright "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Weather
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-- John Adams, dying words A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
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-- Dolly Parton Weather The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
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-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Weather
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 Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Weather The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
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-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Weather
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Weather "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Weather
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
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-- John Wesley In the end, everything is a gag.
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By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
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-- George Bernard Shaw To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Weather
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 "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "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) Weather The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Weather
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Weather The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
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-- Thornton Wilder Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Weather
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Weather "'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, Through the Looking Glass) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein 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.
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