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-- Satchel Paige Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Society and Culture
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Society and Culture "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Society and Culture
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Society and Culture Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Society and Culture The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Society and Culture
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 "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Society and Culture I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Society and Culture
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Society and Culture "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Society and Culture
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Society and Culture Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Society and Culture
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Society and Culture Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Society and Culture
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Society and Culture "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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- Oscar Wilde If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Society and Culture
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Society and Culture
