Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Government Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Government
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Government If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Government
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Government Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Government
"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 Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Government There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Government
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Government "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Government
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Government "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Government
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Government It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel 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.
-- Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Government The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Government
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Government Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Government
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Government We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Government
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Government In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Government
