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"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "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) Government "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Government
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) 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 Government "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Government
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Government 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 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 "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland 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 Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Government There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Government
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Government Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Government
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Government Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "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) Government
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Government "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Government
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Government If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Government
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Government In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Government
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Government Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Government "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Government
