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"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Politics I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Politics
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters 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 Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Politics Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Politics
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Politics My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Politics
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "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 "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Politics Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Politics
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Politics I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Politics
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Politics Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Politics
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Politics The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Politics
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous 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 The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Politics "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Politics
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Politics "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) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Politics
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Politics A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Politics
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Politics "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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