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For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Genealogy If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Genealogy
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Genealogy Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Genealogy
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Genealogy "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Genealogy
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "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) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Genealogy I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Genealogy
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Genealogy Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Genealogy
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Genealogy With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Genealogy
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Genealogy Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Genealogy
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Genealogy Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "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) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Genealogy
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Genealogy "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genealogy
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Genealogy "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Genealogy
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Genealogy A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Genealogy
