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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Television A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Television
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Television The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "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 Television
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Television I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham 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 Television
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Television "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Television
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Television Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert 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 Television
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Television Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Television
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Television Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Television
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Television Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W 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 "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Television
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Television Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Television
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Television Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Television
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Television The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Television
