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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" 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 "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Christianity "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "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 empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Christianity
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 "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Christianity A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Christianity
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Christianity "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Christianity
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Christianity 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 Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Christianity
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Christianity Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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 theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Christianity
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Christianity I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Christianity
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Christianity If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Christianity
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Christianity I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great 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 I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Christianity
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Christianity Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Christianity
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Christianity "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Christianity
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Christianity Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Christianity
