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Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Government The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Government
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Government Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Government
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Government The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Government
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "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) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Government The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Government
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Government If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) 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
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Government "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Government
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Government "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Government
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Government Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "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." If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Government An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Government
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone 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 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 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Government You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Government
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Government Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government
