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"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "... 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) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a rest period between romances. Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Government "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Government
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Government "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford 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 Government
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Government Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 Government
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Government The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Government
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Government "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Government
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Government "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "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 Government
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston 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 Government It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Government
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Government Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Government
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Government Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Government
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Government "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Government
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Government "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Government
