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-- Anonymous "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 first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Crumlin My other wife is beautiful. "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Crumlin
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 "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) 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.
Crumlin Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Crumlin
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Crumlin To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Crumlin
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Crumlin We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Crumlin
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Crumlin "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Crumlin
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Crumlin People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Crumlin
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Crumlin "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Crumlin
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Crumlin I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Crumlin
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Crumlin No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Crumlin
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Crumlin 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 love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "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) Crumlin
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Crumlin If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Crumlin
