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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Government "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Government
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Government Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Government
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Government Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Government
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "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) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Government Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Government
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Government Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Government
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "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) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Government "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) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Government
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams 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 Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Government "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Government
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "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) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Government The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Government
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Government God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Government
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Government "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Government
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Government Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Government
