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May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Skagastrond Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Skagastrond
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Skagastrond Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Skagastrond
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "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 Skagastrond 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 Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Skagastrond
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Skagastrond Marriage is a rest period between romances. The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Skagastrond
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Skagastrond Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Skagastrond
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Skagastrond "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Skagastrond
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Skagastrond "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Skagastrond
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Skagastrond To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Skagastrond
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Skagastrond Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Marriage is a rest period between romances. By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Skagastrond
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Skagastrond What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words What's new? Most of my wife. I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Skagastrond
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Skagastrond He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Skagastrond
