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Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Police Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Police
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Police And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Police
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Police The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "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) Police
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Police I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 Police
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Police Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Police
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine 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) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Police Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Police
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "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) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Police "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Police
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Police Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Police
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Police The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Police
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Police "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Police
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Police "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Police
