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Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Pays de la Loire If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Pays de la Loire
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "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) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Pays de la Loire I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Pays de la Loire
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Pays de la Loire A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Pays de la Loire
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Pays de la Loire If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Pays de la Loire
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Pays de la Loire You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Pays de la Loire
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Pays de la Loire "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) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson 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 Pays de la Loire
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Pays de la Loire "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Pays de la Loire
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 The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Pays de la Loire blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Pays de la Loire
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 "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Pays de la Loire I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Pays de la Loire
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Pays de la Loire My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Pays de la Loire
Man and wife make one fool. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Pays de la Loire "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Pays de la Loire
