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-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Arts and Entertainment Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt He who laughs, lasts.
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Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Arts and Entertainment Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
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-- Aristotle Onassis In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Arts and Entertainment It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Arts and Entertainment No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
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"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Arts and Entertainment If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Arts and Entertainment
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
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Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
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remember what Arts and Entertainment There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Arts and Entertainment A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Arts and Entertainment
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Arts and Entertainment I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
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