I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner P "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver P
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper P "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) My other wife is beautiful. I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. P
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers P Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein P
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 P Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw P
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov P Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein P
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson P It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley P
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a P Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All P
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th 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 Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson P As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) P
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers P "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein P
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) P University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke P
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates 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 P Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins P
