I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) 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 Localities Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Localities
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Localities It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Localities
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 "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Localities A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Localities
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Localities
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Localities A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Localities
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Localities Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Localities
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Localities One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Localities
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Localities
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Localities The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Localities
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Localities "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Localities
My other wife is beautiful. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Localities Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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