What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Real Estate Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Real Estate
"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) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Real Estate Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
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-- Anonymous Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Real Estate
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Real Estate "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
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-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Real Estate
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Real Estate Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Real Estate "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Real Estate
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Real Estate "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Real Estate
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Real Estate Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Real Estate
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Real Estate "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Real Estate
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
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-- Margaret Thatcher Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Real Estate Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Real Estate
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Real Estate "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Real Estate
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Real Estate Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
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