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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Hostim The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Hostim
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Hostim "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Hostim
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Hostim "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Hostim
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Hostim If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Hostim
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Hostim Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hostim
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Hostim I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Hostim
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Hostim I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Hostim
"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) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Hostim I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Hostim
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Hostim Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Hostim
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Hostim When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Hostim
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Hostim "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Hostim
