The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Aberbeeg Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Aberbeeg
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "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) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Aberbeeg I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Aberbeeg
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Aberbeeg When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Aberbeeg
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Aberbeeg Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Aberbeeg
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Aberbeeg Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Aberbeeg
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer 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 The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Aberbeeg "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Aberbeeg Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Aberbeeg
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Aberbeeg Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Aberbeeg
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Aberbeeg Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Aberbeeg
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Aberbeeg Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Aberbeeg >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Aberbeeg
