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What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Parties Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Parties
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Parties It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Parties
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parties I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Parties
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Parties Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Parties
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Parties In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Parties
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
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forever, Parties Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Parties
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Parties Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Parties
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 "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Parties You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra 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 Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Parties
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Parties "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Parties
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Parties I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Parties
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Parties The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Parties
