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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn 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 If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Chess "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Chess
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Chess But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Chess
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan 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 The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Chess "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Chess
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Chess "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) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Chess
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph My other wife is beautiful. Chess Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Chess
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 Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Chess "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Chess
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Chess A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Chess
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Chess 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 Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Chess
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Chess Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Chess
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chess If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Chess
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Chess People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "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) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Chess
