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Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Barley "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th 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 Barley
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce 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 In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Barley It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Barley
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Barley I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Barley
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Barley "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "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 Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Barley
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Barley Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Barley
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Barley "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) 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 "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Barley
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Barley "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 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 Barley
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Barley the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Barley
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Barley The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Barley
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov 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 If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Barley I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Barley
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Barley The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Barley
