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"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce 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 Portglenone If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Portglenone
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide 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 "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Portglenone I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Portglenone
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "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) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Portglenone Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Portglenone
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) 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, The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Portglenone "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Portglenone
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead 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 History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Portglenone "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Portglenone
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Portglenone I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Portglenone
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Portglenone Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Portglenone
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Portglenone The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Portglenone
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Portglenone When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Portglenone
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Portglenone "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Portglenone
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Portglenone To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Portglenone
