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Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Government 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 "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Government
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea 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 The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Government
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Government When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Government
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Government "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Government
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "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) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Government A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Government
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Government The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Government
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Government
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Government "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Government
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Government "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Government
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous 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 Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Government In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Government
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Government Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Government
