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"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Maps and Views "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Maps and Views
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Maps and Views What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Maps and Views
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Maps and Views In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Maps and Views
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Maps and Views 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 Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Maps and Views "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Maps and Views
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Maps and Views The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Maps and Views
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Maps and Views If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Maps and Views
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Maps and Views A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Maps and Views
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Maps and Views I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Maps and Views
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Maps and Views Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views
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 It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Maps and Views "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Maps and Views
