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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Maps and Views
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous 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 Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Maps and Views "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Maps and Views "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, 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 Maps and Views Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Maps and Views
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Maps and Views I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Maps and Views
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Maps and Views Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Maps and Views
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "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) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Maps and Views
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Maps and Views The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill 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 Maps and Views
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Maps and Views A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Maps and Views
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Maps and Views We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Maps and Views
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Maps and Views "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Maps and Views
