Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Law Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Law
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Law Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Law
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Law Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Law
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Law "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Law
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Law "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Law
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Law "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Law
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Law "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Law
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Law "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Law
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Law Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Law 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 "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Law
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Law We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx 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 nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Law
