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The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie. ~George Deukmejian The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living. ~Charles F. Kettering



There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600



Windows is just DOS in drag. ~Author Unknown



Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather



As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. ~George Will, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of Twentieth-Century American Quotations



We're the middle children of history.... no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. ~From the movie Fight Club, about Generation X



What is stronger than a mother's love? The smell of spring onions on your girl's breath. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902



Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? ~Horace



I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's. ~Alex Karras



Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life. ~Benjamin Franklin Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. ~Ellen Goodman



A leader is a dealer in hope. ~Napoleon Bonaparte



Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater. ~Bette Davis, about Jayne Mansfield



Emotion has taught mankind to reason. ~Marquis de Vauvenargues



You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone. ~J.M. Barrie, What Every Woman Knows



Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men. ~Theodore Roosevelt



The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~Hanna Rion



Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals. ~Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro, 1784, translated



My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution. ~George Washington, letter, 1789



To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ~Bertrand Russell



There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. ~Don Herold