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"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) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Localities "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Localities
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Localities Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Localities
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Localities Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain 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 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Localities
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Localities I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon 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 There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Localities
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Localities Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Localities
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Localities Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Localities
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Localities Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Localities
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Localities Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht 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 "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Localities
"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) I think, therefore I'm single.
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Localities Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Localities
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Localities A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland 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 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Localities
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Localities This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Localities
