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"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) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France N When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde N
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson N Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) N
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo N "Think off-center." (George Carlin) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' N
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder 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 We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa N There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) N The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop N
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones N A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago N
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) N 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 Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. N
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom N God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous N
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi N "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde N
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) N "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer N
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) N "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "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) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little N
