The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Men have become the tools of their tools.
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- William Jennings Bryan 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 Shopping
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
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-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Shopping Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
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-- John Barrymore - last words Shopping
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
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-- Fred Allen See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Shopping Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Shopping
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
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-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Shopping The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
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We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Shopping "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Shopping
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Shopping This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
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-- John Cage Shopping
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
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-- Sydney Smith A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Shopping Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
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-- Michel de Montaigne A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Shopping
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
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-- Woody Allen The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
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-- Fred Astaire "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Shopping Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Shopping
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Shopping A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Shopping
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
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-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Shopping
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 Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Shopping Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Shopping
