Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. 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 Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Skirlaugh But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Skirlaugh
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Skirlaugh The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Skirlaugh
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Skirlaugh I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Skirlaugh
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Skirlaugh "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Skirlaugh
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "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) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Skirlaugh No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Skirlaugh
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Skirlaugh The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Skirlaugh
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Skirlaugh I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Skirlaugh
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Skirlaugh "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "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-) Skirlaugh
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Skirlaugh A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Skirlaugh
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Skirlaugh Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Skirlaugh Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Skirlaugh
