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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Research Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Research
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Research "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Research
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Research "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Research
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Research "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Research
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Research When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Research
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Research Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Research
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Research Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Research
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Research Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Research
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Research There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Research
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel 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 Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Research 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 "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Research
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson 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 Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Research Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Research
