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"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Government The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Government
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Government The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Government
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Government The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Government
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Government "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Government
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Government All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Government
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Government "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) 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 Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Government
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla 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 You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Government Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) 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) Government
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Government "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend 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" Government
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Government We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Government
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Government A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Government
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Government Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Government
