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blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) 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 Government Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Government
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Government If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Government
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "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 Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Government Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Government
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Government Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Government
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Government Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Government
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Government An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Government
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) 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 That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Government Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Government
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Government "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Government
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "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) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Government "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Government
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Government If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Government
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Government I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Government
