Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
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-- Arnold Bennett The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Real Estate By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
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-- Joseph Addison Real Estate
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Vote early and vote often.
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-- John Lyly Real Estate A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Real Estate
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
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- Jeremy Taylor "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Real Estate In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
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-- Peter F. Drucker Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
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-- G. M. Trevelyan If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Real Estate
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
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-- Harold Loukes An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
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-- Dave Barry A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Real Estate
If we don't change the direction we are going,
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-- Chinese saying Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
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-- Seneca Use your own best judgment at all times.
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-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
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-- Albert Einstein The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Real Estate
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Real Estate We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
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-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Real Estate
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Real Estate Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Real Estate
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
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-- Pearl Williams Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
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-- Anatole France I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Real Estate
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Real Estate Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Real Estate
