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Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Coventry A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Coventry
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Coventry ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Coventry
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Coventry "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Coventry
"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) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Coventry 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 Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Coventry
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Coventry Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Coventry
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Coventry You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Coventry
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Coventry There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Coventry
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Coventry Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Coventry
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Coventry 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 Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Coventry
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Coventry When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Coventry
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Coventry Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Coventry
