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My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Government It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Government
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Government It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Government
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Government Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Government
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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. Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Government Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Government
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Government Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Government
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) 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 I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Government The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Government
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Government The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Government
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Government You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Government
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Government What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Government
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Government He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Government
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Government Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Government
