"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Man and wife make one fool. Legislation The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Legislation
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Legislation "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) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Legislation
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James 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 There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Legislation Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous 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 If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Legislation
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Legislation He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Legislation
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana 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 The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Legislation Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Legislation
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle 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 "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Legislation "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) 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 I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Legislation
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Legislation Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Legislation
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) 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 What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Legislation May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Legislation
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Legislation "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Legislation
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Legislation "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Legislation
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Legislation In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
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