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Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Associations 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 Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Associations
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan 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 My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Associations "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) 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 Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Associations
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Associations Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Associations
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins 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 "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Associations Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Associations
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Associations A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Associations
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Associations Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Associations
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Associations "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Associations
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky 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 Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Associations The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Associations
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Associations "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "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) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Associations
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Associations Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Associations
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 There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Associations "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Associations
