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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Arts and Entertainment "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Arts and Entertainment A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Arts and Entertainment
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Arts and Entertainment Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Arts and Entertainment
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell 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 You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Arts and Entertainment We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
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blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Arts and Entertainment
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Arts and Entertainment A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Arts and Entertainment
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Arts and Entertainment "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Arts and Entertainment
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Arts and Entertainment A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment
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-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Arts and Entertainment Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "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) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb 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 "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Arts and Entertainment "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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