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Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
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your The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Poros "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Poros
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill 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 Poros Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
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- Sir Winston Churchill Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Poros
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Poros We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Poros
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Poros Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben 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 Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Poros
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Poros "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Poros
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress 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 Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Poros A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Poros
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Poros The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Poros
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Poros "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Poros
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Poros I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Poros
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Poros ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Poros
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" We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Poros Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Poros
