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My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Lorraine And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Lorraine
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lorraine Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Lorraine
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 My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Lorraine The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Lorraine
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Lorraine A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Lorraine
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Lorraine "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Lorraine
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Lorraine The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Lorraine
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Lorraine "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Lorraine
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Lorraine "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "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 Lorraine
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Lorraine Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Lorraine
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Lorraine Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Lorraine
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Lorraine The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Lorraine
