People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Foreign Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Foreign
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Foreign Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Foreign
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Foreign "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Foreign
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Foreign Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Foreign 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 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Foreign
Man and wife make one fool. Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Foreign The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Foreign
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Foreign 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 As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Foreign
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Foreign All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Foreign
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Foreign When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Foreign
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Foreign Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Foreign
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Foreign If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Use your own best judgment at all times.
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