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Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Ulster-Scots Dialect "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Ulster-Scots Dialect
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) 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
sea We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Ulster-Scots Dialect Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Ulster-Scots Dialect
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Ulster-Scots Dialect It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Ulster-Scots Dialect
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Ulster-Scots Dialect Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Ulster-Scots Dialect
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Ulster-Scots Dialect Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Ulster-Scots Dialect
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Ulster-Scots Dialect The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Ulster-Scots Dialect
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. 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 It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ulster-Scots Dialect The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Ulster-Scots Dialect
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Ulster-Scots Dialect One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Ulster-Scots Dialect
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Ulster-Scots Dialect Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Ulster-Scots Dialect
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Ulster-Scots Dialect It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "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) Ulster-Scots Dialect Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Ulster-Scots Dialect
