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"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Government There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Government
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Government Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Government
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 Government There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green 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 Government
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Government I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Government
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Government "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Government
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Government I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Government
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Government I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Government
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers 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 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Government When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Government When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Government
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Government Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Government
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Government He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Government
