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"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Gordon, George Hamilton Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Gordon, George Hamilton
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge 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 LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Gordon, George Hamilton Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "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 story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Gordon, George Hamilton
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous 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 Gordon, George Hamilton I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Gordon, George Hamilton
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Gordon, George Hamilton "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Gordon, George Hamilton
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Gordon, George Hamilton A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Gordon, George Hamilton
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Gordon, George Hamilton The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Gordon, George Hamilton
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Gordon, George Hamilton Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Gordon, George Hamilton
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Gordon, George Hamilton I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh 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.
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gordon, George Hamilton
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde 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
chara Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Gordon, George Hamilton No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Gordon, George Hamilton
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "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 believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Gordon, George Hamilton I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Gordon, George Hamilton
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Gordon, George Hamilton "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Gordon, George Hamilton
