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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) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Politics Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Politics
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Politics Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Politics
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Politics Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Politics
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Politics If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Politics
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "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 Politics "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Politics
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Politics And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Politics
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Politics May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Politics
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen 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. Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Politics What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Politics
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "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) Politics Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Politics
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Politics "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) 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 blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Politics
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Politics We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel 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 Politics
