I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash 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 Arts and Entertainment "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
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-- Anonymous Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
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And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
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-- Bob Inglis, 1995 I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
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-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Arts and Entertainment
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Arts and Entertainment What's new? Most of my wife. Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Arts and Entertainment
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright 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 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Arts and Entertainment I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Arts and Entertainment
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Arts and Entertainment Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Arts and Entertainment
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Arts and Entertainment "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
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Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Arts and Entertainment It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Arts and Entertainment The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Arts and Entertainment
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Arts and Entertainment Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley 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
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Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Arts and Entertainment "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
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