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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "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) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Grange Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet 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 Grange
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Grange "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Grange
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Grange "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Grange
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Grange Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Grange
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die 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 Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Grange 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 Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Grange
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg 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 English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Grange We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Grange
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Grange I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Grange
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli 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 Grange Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Grange
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Grange "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Grange
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Grange 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 Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Grange
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Grange Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Grange
