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-- Dave Barry A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu If ever two were one, then surely we.
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-- Anne Bradstreet Entertainment A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
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-- Elbert Hubbard Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
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-- George Carlin "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Entertainment
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
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- Mark Twain "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Entertainment
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-- Sigmund Freud "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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-- Anonymous Entertainment Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Entertainment
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-- Will Rogers Entertainment When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
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-- Virginia Woolf Entertainment
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Entertainment All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
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-- Seneca Entertainment
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
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-- Anonymous Entertainment The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
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-- Tom Robbins Entertainment There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
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"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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-- Edgar Watson Howe The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
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-- Adlai Stevenson Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Entertainment "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) 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 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 Entertainment
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
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-- Francois Cavanna Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Entertainment Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
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-- George Bernard Shaw If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Entertainment
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
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-- Damon Runyan By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
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-- ROBERT FROST That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
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-- Lenny Bruce Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Entertainment
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Entertainment Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
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