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Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "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) Cirencester "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Cirencester
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Cirencester "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 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Cirencester
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Cirencester "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) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cirencester
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the 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 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Cirencester My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Cirencester
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Cirencester "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Cirencester
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Cirencester Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Cirencester
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Cirencester "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cirencester
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Cirencester The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Cirencester
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Cirencester "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Cirencester
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Cirencester Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Cirencester
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Cirencester Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Cirencester
