I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Ardennes A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Ardennes
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Ardennes He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Ardennes
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Ardennes An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Ardennes People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Ardennes
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Ardennes The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Ardennes
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Ardennes "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Ardennes
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Ardennes The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Ardennes
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Ardennes "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Ardennes
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Ardennes "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Ardennes
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Ardennes The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ardennes
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Ardennes Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Ardennes
