Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "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) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Chats and Forums One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
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-- Oscar Wilde Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
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The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Chats and Forums "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
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-- Bertrand Russell Chats and Forums
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "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) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Chats and Forums The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
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Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Chats and Forums In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
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-- Directions on moist towelette package I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Chats and Forums
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Chats and Forums Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
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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 Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
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-- Gandhi Chats and Forums Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
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-- Ralph Mars Chats and Forums
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Chats and Forums "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Chats and Forums
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
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proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Chats and Forums You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Chats and Forums I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Chats and Forums If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Chats and Forums
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
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-- Ed Abbey Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Chats and Forums "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 To teach is to learn twice.
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