The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Makes and Models "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) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Makes and Models
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Makes and Models Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Makes and Models
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Makes and Models blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Makes and Models
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Makes and Models "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Makes and Models
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Makes and Models Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Makes and Models
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Makes and Models "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Makes and Models
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Makes and Models The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Makes and Models
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln ... 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
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Makes and Models There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Makes and Models
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Makes and Models A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers 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 Makes and Models
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Makes and Models Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Makes and Models
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) 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 Makes and Models Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Makes and Models
