Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President 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 "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Charente-Maritime The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Charente-Maritime
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe 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 Charente-Maritime "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Charente-Maritime
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Charente-Maritime Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Charente-Maritime
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Charente-Maritime And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Charente-Maritime
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Charente-Maritime Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Charente-Maritime
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Charente-Maritime "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Charente-Maritime
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Charente-Maritime Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Charente-Maritime
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Charente-Maritime "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Charente-Maritime
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Charente-Maritime There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi 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 Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Charente-Maritime
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) 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 You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Charente-Maritime A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Charente-Maritime Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Charente-Maritime
