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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Government If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Government
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Government The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Government
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 Government The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Government
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Government Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Government I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Government
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Government "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Government
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Government The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Government
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Government There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Government
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "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) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Government "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Government
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Government "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Government
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) 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 Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Government Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Government
