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Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Government When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Government
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Government Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Government
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Government The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Government
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Government Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Government
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Government Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Government
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright 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 If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Government Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Government
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "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, Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Government "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Government
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) 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 You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Government
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Government History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Government
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Government Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Government
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Government If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Government
