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Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Government "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Government
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Government "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Government
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Government While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Government
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Government Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Government
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Government "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Government
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Government The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Government
"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) 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 Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Government Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Government
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Government Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Government
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Government Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Government
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Government Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Government
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Government "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Government
