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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 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost 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 "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Government
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Government
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President 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 It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Government "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Government
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Government "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Government
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Government Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Government
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Government Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Government
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Government Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Government
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Government It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Government
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Government The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin 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 "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Government
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Government "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Government
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Government The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Government
