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"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Government A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "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) Government
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Government Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb 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 What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Government There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
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 If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Government It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Government
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Government "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Government
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Government Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Government
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Government "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Government
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Government "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Government
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Government All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Government
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein 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 May you never leave your marriage alive. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Government I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Government
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Government "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Government
