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"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim 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 Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Scottish Green Party "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Scottish Green Party
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Scottish Green Party "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Scottish Green Party
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Scottish Green Party "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Scottish Green Party
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Scottish Green Party "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Scottish Green Party
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Scottish Green Party Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Scottish Green Party
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Scottish Green Party That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Scottish Green Party
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Scottish Green Party Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Scottish Green Party
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Scottish Green Party "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Scottish Green Party
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Scottish Green Party I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Scottish Green Party
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Scottish Green Party Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Scottish Green Party
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain 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 The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Scottish Green Party This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Scottish Green Party
