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All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Government
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Government "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Government
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Government "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Government
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 road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Government The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Government
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Government Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Government
"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 True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Government "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Government
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 Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Government Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) 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 Government
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Government "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Government
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Government Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Government
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous 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 A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Government "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Government
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Government The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Government
