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I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Directories The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Directories
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Directories It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Directories
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Directories "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Directories
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning 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 "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Directories "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Directories
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Directories Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Directories
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. 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 I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Directories "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Directories
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Directories Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Directories
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Directories The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
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"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Directories "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Directories
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Directories 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 "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Directories
Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Directories If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Directories
