It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Arts and Entertainment I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
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-- Rodney Dangerfield Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
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-- Anne Sullivan The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
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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 Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Arts and Entertainment "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
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-- Orison Swett Marden Arts and Entertainment
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Arts and Entertainment "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Arts and Entertainment
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "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 Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Arts and Entertainment
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
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-- Mae West Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Arts and Entertainment An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Politics have no relation to morals.
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-- Anon Arts and Entertainment
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Arts and Entertainment He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
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A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
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-- Billy Joel Arts and Entertainment The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
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-- Unknown history student Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
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-- George Carlin Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Arts and Entertainment
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
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-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Arts and Entertainment "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Arts and Entertainment
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Arts and Entertainment "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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