I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. 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 "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
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-- W. C. Fields "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Alpes-Maritimes
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
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be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Alpes-Maritimes Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Alpes-Maritimes Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
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A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor 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.
-- Winston Churchill Alpes-Maritimes "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Alpes-Maritimes Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Alpes-Maritimes
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
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-- Aldous Huxley Alpes-Maritimes "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
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-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Alpes-Maritimes "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Alpes-Maritimes
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Alpes-Maritimes To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
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I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Alpes-Maritimes Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Alpes-Maritimes
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Alpes-Maritimes The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
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