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I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Community Links "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Community Links
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Community Links Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Community Links
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Community Links A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Community Links
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Community Links 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 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 "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Community Links
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "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 Community Links "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "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) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Community Links
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Community Links Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Community Links
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Community Links "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Community Links
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Community Links Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Community Links
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Community Links 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 "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Community Links
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Community Links Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Community Links
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Community Links Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Community Links
