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"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) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton Government Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Government "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy Government May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically! -- Steven Wright Government It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. - G. B. Burgin I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Government Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Government "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Government "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson Government A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be Government "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Government Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita Government Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words Government Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Government Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time Government If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Government America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. -- Bobcat Goldthwait The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Government Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Government "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle Government A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous Government Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Government 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. -- Anonymous Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca Government Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |