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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Stroud "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Stroud
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. 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 Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Stroud "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "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) Stroud
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Stroud Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Stroud
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Stroud "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) 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 Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Stroud
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Stroud Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Stroud
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Stroud And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Stroud The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Stroud
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) 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 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Stroud Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Stroud
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Stroud What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Stroud
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Stroud May you never leave your marriage alive. There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Stroud
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Stroud "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John 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 Stroud
