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You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Government The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Government
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Government "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Government
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Government blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Government When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Government
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) 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 Government Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Government
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Government A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "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) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Government
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Government Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Government
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Government
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Government Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Government
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Government "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Government
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Government Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Government
