For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Milnrow And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Milnrow
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Milnrow Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning 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 "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Milnrow
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller 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 Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Milnrow Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Milnrow
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Milnrow I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Milnrow
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Milnrow Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Man and wife make one fool. Milnrow
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Man and wife make one fool. 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) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Milnrow "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Milnrow
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Milnrow I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Milnrow
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Milnrow If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine 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 Milnrow
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Milnrow I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Milnrow
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 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) 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 Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Milnrow When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Milnrow
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige 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 Milnrow Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher 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
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