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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) News Agencies "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor News Agencies
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West News Agencies She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa News Agencies
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer News Agencies "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton News Agencies
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth News Agencies "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf News Agencies
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) News Agencies "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous News Agencies
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News Agencies More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C News Agencies
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe News Agencies God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire News Agencies
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw News Agencies One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) News Agencies
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde News Agencies "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black News Agencies
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch News Agencies Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln News Agencies
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost News Agencies "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler News Agencies
