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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Vlaams-Brabant I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Vlaams-Brabant
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) 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 "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Vlaams-Brabant It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx 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. Vlaams-Brabant
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 "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Vlaams-Brabant Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Vlaams-Brabant
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 "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Vlaams-Brabant The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Vlaams-Brabant
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Vlaams-Brabant America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Vlaams-Brabant
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Vlaams-Brabant I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Vlaams-Brabant
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vlaams-Brabant MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Vlaams-Brabant
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings 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 "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Vlaams-Brabant "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Vlaams-Brabant
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 "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "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) Vlaams-Brabant Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Vlaams-Brabant
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) 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 The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Vlaams-Brabant What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Vlaams-Brabant
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Vlaams-Brabant You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Vlaams-Brabant
