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Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Opera The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Opera
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Opera Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Opera
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Opera Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Opera
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Opera Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Opera
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "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) Opera "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Opera
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Opera An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Opera
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Opera The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Opera
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Opera After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Opera
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 "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Opera If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Opera
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Opera Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Opera
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 I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Opera "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Opera
