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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Maps and Views If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Maps and Views
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Maps and Views Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Maps and Views
"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) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Maps and Views
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Maps and Views Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Maps and Views
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Maps and Views Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Maps and Views
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Maps and Views The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Maps and Views
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Maps and Views "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Maps and Views
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Maps and Views Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Maps and Views
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Maps and Views It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Maps and Views
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 most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "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 Maps and Views "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Maps and Views
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Maps and Views My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett 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 "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Maps and Views
