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"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Weather Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Weather
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Weather It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Weather
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. 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 Weather Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Weather
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Weather A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Weather
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Weather 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Weather
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "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) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri 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 Weather "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Weather
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Weather Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Weather
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Weather The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Weather
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Weather "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Weather
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Weather "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Weather
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) 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 is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Weather The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Weather
