If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
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-- Cynthia H A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Libraries Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Libraries
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
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-- Daniel Webster, dying words Libraries Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
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-- Mother Teresa Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
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-- Geoffrey C. Ward Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
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Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "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, Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
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There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
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-- Michel de Montaigne "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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-- Lao Tzu The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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Robert Frost (1874-1963) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
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"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "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) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Libraries "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
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"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
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-- Agatha Christie Libraries "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
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"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Libraries "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
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