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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Home and Garden My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Home and Garden
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Home and Garden Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Home and Garden
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Home and Garden Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Home and Garden
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "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) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Home and Garden "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Home and Garden
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Home and Garden It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Home and Garden
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. 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 Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Home and Garden "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Home and Garden
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Home and Garden Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Home and Garden
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Home and Garden It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Home and Garden
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Home and Garden There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Home and Garden
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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 We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Home and Garden We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Home and Garden
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Home and Garden "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Home and Garden
