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I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. 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 Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Government Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Government
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Government "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 I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Government
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Government Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Government
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Government Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Government
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Government Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Government
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Government Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Government
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Government "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) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Government
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Government What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Government
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Government Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Government
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Government Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Government
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Government Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Government
