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I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Lohme I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Lohme
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Lohme "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Lohme
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Lohme The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Lohme
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Lohme "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Lohme
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen 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 We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Lohme Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Lohme
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lohme "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Lohme
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Lohme The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Lohme
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Lohme Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl My other wife is beautiful. "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Lohme
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Lohme Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Lohme
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Lohme Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Lohme
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "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 Lohme A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Lohme
