The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Loir-et-Cher He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Loir-et-Cher
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "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) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Loir-et-Cher Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Loir-et-Cher
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Loir-et-Cher I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Loir-et-Cher
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Loir-et-Cher History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Loir-et-Cher
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Loir-et-Cher blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Loir-et-Cher
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 Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Loir-et-Cher "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Loir-et-Cher
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Loir-et-Cher Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Loir-et-Cher
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Loir-et-Cher "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Loir-et-Cher
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Loir-et-Cher No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Loir-et-Cher
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Loir-et-Cher Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Loir-et-Cher
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Loir-et-Cher "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
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