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Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Government Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Government
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Government
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Government "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Government
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Government Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Government
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Government In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Government
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Government Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Government
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Government "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Government
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Government Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Government
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Government When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Government
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Government The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Government
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Government I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Government
