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People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx 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 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 When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Low Row A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Low Row
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Low Row We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Low Row
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Low Row It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca 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 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Low Row
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Low Row Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Low Row
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Low Row Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Low Row
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Low Row The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Low Row
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Low Row Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Low Row
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Low Row If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Low Row
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Low Row "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Low Row
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller 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 A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Low Row "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Low Row
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I 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 Low Row In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Low Row
