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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 Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard History "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) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 History
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood History A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov History
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) 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 The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos History Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black History
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) History 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) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle 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 If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard History "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson History
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President History Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler History
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton History The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong History
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra History The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless History
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare 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 "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) History "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin History
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre History Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz History
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) History Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf History
