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-- Robert Browning A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Movies
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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-- Ray Bandy Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
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-- Vince Lombardi "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Movies The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
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-- H. L. Mencken Movies
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
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- Thomas Jefferson I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Movies If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
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It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
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-- John Hogan, Commonwealth I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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-- Conway's Law Movies Never eat more than you can lift.
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-- Aaron Machado Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Movies
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger 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.
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sea Movies The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
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-- Jim Beggs The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Movies
"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) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
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-- Horace Walpole Movies "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Movies
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
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-- Dr. Karl Menninger Movies "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
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-- Abraham Lincoln Movies
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
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-- Victor Borge Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
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-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Movies Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
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-- H. L. Mencken your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Movies
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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-- Ed Howe Movies If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
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-- H. L. Mencken I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Movies I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
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-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Movies
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
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-- Rita Mae Brown Movies The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Count your age with friends but not with years.
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