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America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
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-- Seneca "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Arts and Entertainment Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
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-- Oscar Wilde Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Arts and Entertainment Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Arts and Entertainment
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Arts and Entertainment A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
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-- Albert Einstein, attributed "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Arts and Entertainment The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Arts and Entertainment Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
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-- Billy Sunday Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
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-- Theodore Roosevelt Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Arts and Entertainment Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Arts and Entertainment
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Arts and Entertainment Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Arts and Entertainment LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Arts and Entertainment
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
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-- Guy Almes The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Arts and Entertainment Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Arts and Entertainment The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
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