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"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero Berlin All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides Berlin 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. Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Berlin It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Berlin Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock Berlin When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy Berlin It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell 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 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. The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words Berlin Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically! -- Steven Wright blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Berlin "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry Berlin I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene Berlin It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Berlin "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen Berlin "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Berlin Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler Berlin "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) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Berlin I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White Berlin "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) 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 Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Berlin I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw Berlin Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Berlin "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Berlin We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder Berlin Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Berlin
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