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Andre Gide Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Gyor-Moson-Sopron County The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Gyor-Moson-Sopron County
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Gyor-Moson-Sopron County "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) 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,
stealing, "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) Gyor-Moson-Sopron County
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Gyor-Moson-Sopron County When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Gyor-Moson-Sopron County
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Gyor-Moson-Sopron County "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Gyor-Moson-Sopron County
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Gyor-Moson-Sopron County "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Gyor-Moson-Sopron County
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Gyor-Moson-Sopron County Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Gyor-Moson-Sopron County
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Gyor-Moson-Sopron County I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Gyor-Moson-Sopron County
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gyor-Moson-Sopron County When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Gyor-Moson-Sopron County
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Gyor-Moson-Sopron County Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Gyor-Moson-Sopron County
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Gyor-Moson-Sopron County A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Gyor-Moson-Sopron County
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Gyor-Moson-Sopron County A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Gyor-Moson-Sopron County
