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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "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 don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Duston There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Duston
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Duston No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Duston
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Duston You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Duston
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Duston Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Duston
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Duston Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Duston
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Duston Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Duston
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 To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Duston "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Duston
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Duston "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Duston
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Duston I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Duston
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Duston For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Duston
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Duston Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Duston
