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The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Government I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Government
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Government
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Government "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government
Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Government What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Government The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Government
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Government I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Government
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Government A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Government Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Government Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Government
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Government blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Government
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Government As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
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