Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
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-- Rose Franken Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
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-- H.L. Mencken A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Marriage is a rest period between romances. Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Organizations "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
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A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
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-- Sidney Goff Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
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Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
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-- Woody Allen A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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-- F. M. Knowles Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Organizations >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
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-- Jean de La Fontaine I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
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-- Katharine Hepburn Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
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-- P. J. O'Rourke Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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-- Sacha Guitry We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Organizations "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Organizations
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
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"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
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-- Zora Neale Hurston Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
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