We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Middle Eastern The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Middle Eastern
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Middle Eastern "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Middle Eastern "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) 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 Middle Eastern
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Middle Eastern We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Middle Eastern
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) 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 "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Middle Eastern The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen 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 Middle Eastern
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Middle Eastern The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Middle Eastern
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Middle Eastern Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Middle Eastern
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "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) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Middle Eastern We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Middle Eastern
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Middle Eastern "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Middle Eastern
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Middle Eastern There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Middle Eastern
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones 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 Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Middle Eastern Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Middle Eastern
