Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
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-- Groucho Marx Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Shopping A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Shopping
"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 I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Shopping 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 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Shopping
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Shopping Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
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-- William James Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Shopping
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Shopping To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "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 Shopping
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
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-- Arthur Godfrey "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Shopping Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Shopping
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Shopping Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Shopping
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
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commun Shopping I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Shopping
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Shopping "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Shopping
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Shopping I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Shopping
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) 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 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
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-- Mortimer J. Adler Shopping "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "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 Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Shopping
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Shopping If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Shopping
