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You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Parliament Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Parliament
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Parliament To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Parliament
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas 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. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Parliament In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Parliament
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Parliament For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Parliament
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Parliament "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Parliament
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 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 Parliament Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Parliament
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Parliament Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Parliament
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Parliament Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Parliament
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Parliament Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parliament
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Parliament "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Parliament
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Parliament One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
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