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"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Chiddingly Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "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 "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Chiddingly
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Chiddingly Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Chiddingly
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Chiddingly The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Chiddingly
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Chiddingly Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Chiddingly
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Chiddingly Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Chiddingly
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Chiddingly A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Chiddingly
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Chiddingly "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Chiddingly
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Chiddingly "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chiddingly
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Chiddingly "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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 "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Chiddingly
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Chiddingly "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Chiddingly
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Chiddingly Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Chiddingly
