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May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Issues If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Issues
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Issues I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Issues
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Issues A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Issues
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 "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Issues Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Issues
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Issues "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Issues
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Issues "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Issues
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Issues "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Issues
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Issues A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Issues
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Issues If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Issues
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Issues I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Issues
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Issues Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Issues
