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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Government Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Government
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Government Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Government
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Government A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Government
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Government Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Government
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Government Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Government
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Government Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Government
Man and wife make one fool. "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" 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 There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Government Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Government
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Government "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Government
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Government Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Government
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers 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 Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Government When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Government
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Government When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Government
