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Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Financial Services I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Financial Services
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Financial Services Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Financial Services
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Financial Services He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Financial Services
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain The west wasn't won on salad.
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- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Financial Services
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins 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 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Financial Services "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Financial Services
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Financial Services Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Financial Services
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Financial Services Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "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 Financial Services
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Financial Services "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain 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 Financial Services
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Financial Services I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Financial Services
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
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-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Financial Services
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Financial Services Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Financial Services
