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"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Photography No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Photography
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Photography The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Photography
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Photography You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Photography
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Photography "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Photography
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Photography "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Photography
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Photography I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Photography
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. 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 What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Photography What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Photography
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Photography "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. 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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Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Photography "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Photography
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Photography You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Photography
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Photography A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Photography
