God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Bullmastiff What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Bullmastiff
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Bullmastiff The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Bullmastiff
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Bullmastiff It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Bullmastiff
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "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) Bullmastiff "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "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 want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Bullmastiff
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Bullmastiff Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Bullmastiff
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) 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 Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar 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 Bullmastiff I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Bullmastiff
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Bullmastiff Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Bullmastiff
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Bullmastiff What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Bullmastiff
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Bullmastiff "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Bullmastiff
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon May you never leave your marriage alive. A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Bullmastiff Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Bullmastiff
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Bullmastiff 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 I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Bullmastiff
