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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Government The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Government Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Government
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Government Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 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 Government
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Government I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Government
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa 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 A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Government To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Government
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Government There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Government
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Government It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Government
"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) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Government "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Government
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Government 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 Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Government
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 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 The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Government I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Government
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Government
