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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 Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Everdon "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Everdon
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Everdon The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Everdon
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Everdon Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Everdon
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Everdon "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Everdon
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Everdon He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Everdon
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Everdon If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Everdon
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Everdon "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Everdon
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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Everdon Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) 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 Everdon
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "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) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Everdon My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Everdon
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Everdon This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Everdon
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everdon Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Everdon
