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Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Government "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Government
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Government 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 Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Government
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Government "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates 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) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Government If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Government
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Government Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Government
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Government Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Government
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Government Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Government An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Government
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Government "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Government
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Government
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Government Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Government
