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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Brussels "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Brussels
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Brussels You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Brussels
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Brussels Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Brussels
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) 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 There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Brussels "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Brussels
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Brussels The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Brussels
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler 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 "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Brussels We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Brussels
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Brussels When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Brussels
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 Unhappy There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Brussels The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Brussels
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Brussels The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Brussels
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Brussels Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Brussels
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Brussels Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Brussels
