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-- Mark Twain Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
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-- Wil Shriner Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
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-- Russell Green Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Arts and Entertainment "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
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-- Fred Astaire The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Arts and Entertainment We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
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-- Unknown history student Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
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It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Arts and Entertainment Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) 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 Arts and Entertainment
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Arts and Entertainment When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
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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 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
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-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Arts and Entertainment A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
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I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Arts and Entertainment We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Arts and Entertainment
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Arts and Entertainment May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Arts and Entertainment
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Arts and Entertainment The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Arts and Entertainment
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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-- Bern Williams Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Arts and Entertainment Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
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