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"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves News and Media Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer News and Media
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 Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown News and Media Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) News and Media
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz News and Media I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper News and Media
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) News and Media An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r News and Media
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic News and Media "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower News and Media
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. News and Media The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge News and Media
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda 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 All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester News and Media Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) News and Media The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke News and Media
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. News and Media The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard News and Media
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law News and Media "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover 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 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 News and Media I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. News and Media
