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I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Badminton The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Badminton
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Badminton Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Badminton
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Badminton If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Badminton
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Badminton "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Badminton
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
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- Henry David Thoreau Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Badminton
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Badminton "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Badminton
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Badminton "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Badminton
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Badminton A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Badminton
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Badminton Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Badminton
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) 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) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Badminton Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Badminton
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Badminton The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Badminton
