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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Government Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "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." It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Government
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Government "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Government
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Government A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Government
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Government No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Government
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Government He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Government
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Government If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Government
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Government "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) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Government
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Government Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Government
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Government Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Government
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Government It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Government
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Government
