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Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "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) Ditton But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Ditton
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Ditton Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "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 Ditton
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Ditton Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Ditton
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "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 Ditton I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Ditton
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "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) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Ditton Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Ditton
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Ditton Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Ditton
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Ditton You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Ditton
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Ditton blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Ditton
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ditton Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Ditton
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Ditton When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Ditton
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Ditton The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Ditton
