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"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane History "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman History
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken History "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte History
"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 The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. History For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke History
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre History "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) History
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers History How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, History
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) History Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln History
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo History When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa History
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) History "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th History
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "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 "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel History "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey History
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart History "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) History
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Spinster: A bachelor's wife. History "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen History
