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I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Religion 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' Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Religion
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Religion My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Religion
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University 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 Religion When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Religion
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Religion Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Religion
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Religion Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Religion
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor 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 He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Religion "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Religion
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Religion This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Religion
"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) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Religion For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Religion
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood 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 "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Religion
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Religion America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Religion
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Religion "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Religion
