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Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Government "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Government
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Government "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Government
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais 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 Government They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Government
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Government "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Government
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Government He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Government
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "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 My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Government Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Government
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Government It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Government
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas 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 When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Government What's new? Most of my wife. "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Government
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Government Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Government
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Government Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Government
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Government It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Government
