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Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "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) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Movies Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Movies
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Movies He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Movies
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Movies Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Movies
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Movies If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Movies
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Movies "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) 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 There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Movies
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Movies "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Movies
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Movies "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Movies
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Movies Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "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) Movies
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Movies Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Movies
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Movies I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Movies
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Movies "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Movies
