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You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Crime and Policing 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 "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) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Crime and Policing
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Crime and Policing You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Crime and Policing
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Crime and Policing "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Crime and Policing
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Crime and Policing "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Crime and Policing
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Crime and Policing "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Crime and Policing
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Crime and Policing Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl 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 One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Crime and Policing
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Crime and Policing Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Crime and Policing
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) 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 Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) 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 Crime and Policing There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Crime and Policing
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show 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 The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Crime and Policing There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Crime and Policing
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Crime and Policing Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Crime and Policing
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. 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 Crime and Policing "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Crime and Policing
