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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Marriage is a rest period between romances. With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Religion Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Religion
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Religion Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Religion
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "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 Religion "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Religion
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Religion The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Religion
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "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) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Religion "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Religion
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Religion If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Religion
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Religion A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Religion
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Religion "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Religion
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Religion Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Religion
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Religion "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Religion
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Religion The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Religion
