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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack 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 I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Guides and Directories "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner 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
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"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Guides and Directories The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th 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 I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Guides and Directories
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Guides and Directories Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Guides and Directories
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Guides and Directories Marriage is a rest period between romances. "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Guides and Directories "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Guides and Directories
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Guides and Directories
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Guides and Directories We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Guides and Directories
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Guides and Directories "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Guides and Directories
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Guides and Directories
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA 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 Guides and Directories "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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
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Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Guides and Directories We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Guides and Directories
