To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
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-- Aristotle If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Referral Services
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Referral Services What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
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-- Buddha Referral Services
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Referral Services "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Referral Services
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Referral Services Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The average person thinks he isn't.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Referral Services "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) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
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I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
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-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
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-- John Stuart Mill Referral Services To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Referral Services You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
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-- WARREN BEATTY The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
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-- Abraham Lincoln It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
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People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
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-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Referral Services If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside 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
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-- Crow Referral Services "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Referral Services
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Referral Services There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Referral Services
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
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-- Victor Hugo A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Referral Services The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
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