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Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Government If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Government
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Government "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Government
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Government There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Government
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Government Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Government
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Government "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Government 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 Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Government
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Government I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Government
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Government Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Government
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Government To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Government
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Government "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Government
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Government "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Government
