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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Local Government Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Local Government
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Local Government Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Local Government
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull 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 Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Local Government What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
bre "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Local Government
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Local Government I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Local Government
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright 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 Local Government "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Local Government
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Local Government My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Local Government
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Local Government "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "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 "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Local Government
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Local Government There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Local Government
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Local Government Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Local Government
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Local Government The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Local Government
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Local Government When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Local Government
