When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA 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 "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Animal Welfare We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Animal Welfare
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Animal Welfare "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Animal Welfare
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Animal Welfare blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Animal Welfare
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Animal Welfare "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Animal Welfare
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Animal Welfare "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Animal Welfare
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) 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 "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 Animal Welfare I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Animal Welfare
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale 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 In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Animal Welfare Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "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 Animal Welfare
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 There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin 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 "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Animal Welfare Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Animal Welfare
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Animal Welfare Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Animal Welfare
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Animal Welfare Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Animal Welfare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Animal Welfare Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Animal Welfare
