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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Archiestown For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "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) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Archiestown
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Archiestown Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Archiestown
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Archiestown The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Archiestown
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Archiestown Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Archiestown
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Archiestown Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Archiestown
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Archiestown "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Archiestown
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Archiestown "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Archiestown
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Archiestown Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Archiestown
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Archiestown "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley 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
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"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Archiestown The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Archiestown
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Archiestown Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Archiestown
