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The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Sifnos "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Sifnos
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea 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 Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Sifnos Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Sifnos
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Sifnos Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Sifnos
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Sifnos There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Sifnos
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Sifnos "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Sifnos
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Sifnos The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Sifnos
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Sifnos I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Sifnos
"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 most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "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 man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Sifnos I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Sifnos
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson 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 Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Sifnos "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Sifnos
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Sifnos It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Sifnos
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Sifnos My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Sifnos
