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All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Government The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Government
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Government There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Government
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Government Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Government
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Government The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Government It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Government
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Government You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "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 Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Government
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Government Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Government
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Government Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Government
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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 "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Government We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "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) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Government
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Government In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "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 Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "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 "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Government To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Government
