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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Books and CDs "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Books and CDs
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Books and CDs There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Books and CDs
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Books and CDs "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Books and CDs
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Books and CDs A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Books and CDs
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Books and CDs
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Books and CDs "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Books and CDs
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Books and CDs blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Books and CDs
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Books and CDs If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Books and CDs
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Books and CDs If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Books and CDs
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 "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Books and CDs 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 Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Books and CDs
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Books and CDs I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Books and CDs
