Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland 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 In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law 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 Government
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Government "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Government
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Government Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Government
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Government The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "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 Government
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Government 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 Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Government
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Government Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Government
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words 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 When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Government
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Government It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Government
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Government Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Government
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 "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Government blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran 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 When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Government
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Government "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
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