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Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Government "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Government
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Government
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Government A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Government
"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 The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Government I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Government
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Government
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Government "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Government
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous 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 The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Government "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Government
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Government Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Government
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Government 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 Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Government
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Government Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Government
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Government A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Government