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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Government I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Government
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Government Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Government
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Government "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Government
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Government Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Government
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Government Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar 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 Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Government The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Government
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Government 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 "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Government
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Government You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Government
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Government The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Government
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Government Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Government
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' A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Government A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Government
