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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 I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Stirling District Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Stirling District
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor 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. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Stirling District Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Stirling District
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Stirling District "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Stirling District
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Stirling District 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 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 I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Stirling District
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Stirling District "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Stirling District
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Stirling District An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Stirling District
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Stirling District The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Stirling District
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Stirling District There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Stirling District
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) 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 Stirling District "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Stirling District
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Stirling District Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Stirling District
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Stirling District I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Stirling District
