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Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Cliffe The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Cliffe
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Cliffe It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Cliffe
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Cliffe Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Cliffe
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Cliffe 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 "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Cliffe
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Cliffe Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Cliffe
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Cliffe They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Cliffe
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Cliffe "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Cliffe
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost 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
inspe Cliffe "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Cliffe
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 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 If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Cliffe The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Cliffe
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Cliffe Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Cliffe
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Cliffe "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Cliffe
