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"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Government "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Government
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 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. Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Government "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Government
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Government Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government
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
-- Dave Barry Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Government Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Government
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Government Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Government
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Government Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Government
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Government Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Government
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron 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 Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Government I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Government
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Government Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Government
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "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) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Government Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Government
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Government ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Government
