If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Photography I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Photography Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Photography
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Photography 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 He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Photography
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Photography We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Photography
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Photography "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Photography
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Photography A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Photography
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Photography May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Photography
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Photography "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Photography
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Photography Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Photography
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Photography A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "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) Photography
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Photography Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Photography
