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He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Moselkern To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Moselkern
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Moselkern "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Moselkern
"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) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Moselkern Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Moselkern
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "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) 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 It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Moselkern Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Moselkern
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Moselkern Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Moselkern
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Moselkern He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "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) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Moselkern
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda 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) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Moselkern A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Moselkern
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Moselkern "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Moselkern
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Moselkern It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Moselkern
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Moselkern Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Moselkern
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Moselkern That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Moselkern
