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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 Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Crawfordsburn "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Crawfordsburn
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Crawfordsburn "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Crawfordsburn
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Crawfordsburn I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Crawfordsburn
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Crawfordsburn Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort 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 "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Crawfordsburn
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland 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 "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.) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Crawfordsburn Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Crawfordsburn 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 "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Crawfordsburn
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Crawfordsburn Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Crawfordsburn
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks 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 "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) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Crawfordsburn In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Crawfordsburn
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Crawfordsburn After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer 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 Crawfordsburn
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time 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 Crawfordsburn I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Crawfordsburn
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Crawfordsburn 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 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Crawfordsburn
