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"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Associations "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Associations
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Associations If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Associations
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Associations "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Associations
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Associations "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Associations
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Associations "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Associations
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Associations "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Associations
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Associations Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Associations
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B 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 Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Associations It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Associations
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Associations Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Associations
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Associations Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Associations
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Associations Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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
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