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Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Government
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Government There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Government
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Government
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Government Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Government
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 "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Government In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde 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 Government
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Government Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Government
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Government What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words 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
ha Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Government Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Government
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) 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 Government Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Government
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Government "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Government
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government
