If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
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-- Marie Tonkin I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
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-- Lucille Ball Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Hotels
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns 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 Hotels Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Hotels
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Hotels No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
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-- Cesare Pavese Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Hotels
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Hotels If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Hotels
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
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-- Abraham Lincoln He who laughs last didn't get it.
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-- Anonymous Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
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"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hotels I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
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Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hotels We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
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"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
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-- Lenny Bruce It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Hotels Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hotels
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
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-- Oscar Wilde Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Hotels
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Hotels "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Hotels
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott 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 sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Hotels We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Hotels
