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Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Localities The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Localities
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Localities Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Localities
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Localities Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo My other wife is beautiful. Localities
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
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-- Voltaire How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Localities
"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) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Localities "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Localities
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Localities Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Localities
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Localities Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Localities
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) 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 If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Localities The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Localities
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Localities "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Localities
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Localities Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Localities
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw 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.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Localities No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Localities