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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Property Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Property
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Property Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Property
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Property There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Property
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Property The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway 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 Property
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Property For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Property
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "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) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Property We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Property
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Property Man and wife make one fool. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Property
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Property Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Property
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 Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 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 Property Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Property
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Property Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Property
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Property It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Property
