I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
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stealing, 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 "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Radio It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
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-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Radio
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
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those tiny toil Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Radio 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 We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
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-- St. Augustine Radio
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
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-- Abraham Lincoln Radio He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
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--John Simon Radio
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Radio I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Radio
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Radio Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Radio
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Radio No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Radio
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Radio A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Radio
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Radio blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Radio
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Radio 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 Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Radio
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Radio Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Radio
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 In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton 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. If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Radio Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Radio
