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They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Music A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Music
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg 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 "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Music "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Music
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Music Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Music
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Music A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Music
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 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 work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Music Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Music
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Music If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Music
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Music Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Music
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Music Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Music
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Music Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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
Heaven.
-- P. J Music
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Music "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Music
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Music May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Music
