I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Student Groups The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
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My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Student Groups I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Student Groups "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi What do you take me for, an idiot?
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"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Student Groups The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Student Groups There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Student Groups
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Student Groups We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Student Groups Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
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When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Student Groups Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
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"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde 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 "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Student Groups Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Student Groups
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Student Groups Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Student Groups
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Student Groups Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Student Groups
