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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Politicians Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Politicians
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Politicians Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Politicians
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Politicians "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Politicians
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Politicians "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "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) Politicians
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Politicians "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Politicians
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Politicians The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Politicians
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Politicians I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Politicians
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Politicians "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Politicians
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Politicians I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Politicians
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Politicians The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Politicians
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara 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 A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Politicians When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Politicians
