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A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Denmark "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Denmark
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Denmark If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Denmark
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Denmark Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Denmark
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Denmark Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Denmark
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Denmark "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Denmark
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Denmark Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Denmark
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Denmark Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Denmark
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Denmark "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Denmark
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Man and wife make one fool. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Denmark 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 Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Denmark
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Denmark 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 The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Denmark
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Denmark If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Denmark
