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If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Religion "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Religion
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Religion Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Religion
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Religion When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Religion
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 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' More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Religion I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Religion
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Religion Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Religion
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Religion The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Religion
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 Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Religion "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Religion
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 The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Religion I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Religion
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Religion "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Religion
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "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 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 The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Religion
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Religion Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Religion
