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The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Fraser "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Fraser
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Fraser "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Fraser
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Fraser I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Fraser
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Fraser "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Fraser
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) 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
as "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Fraser "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u 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 A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Fraser
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Fraser The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Fraser
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright 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 I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Fraser A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Fraser
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Fraser "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Fraser
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Fraser Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Fraser
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Fraser Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Fraser
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 The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Fraser Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Fraser
