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I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Government A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Government
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Government An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Government
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Government If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous 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 The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Government
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "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 Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Government "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Government
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) 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 The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Government "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Government
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Government
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Government Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) 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 Government
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Government 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 "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Government
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S 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 Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Government
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.
-- The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "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) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Government True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Government
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Government "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Government
