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 Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard 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 Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Automotive Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Automotive
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Automotive You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
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--Malcolm X A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Automotive
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Automotive Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Automotive
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Automotive blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Automotive
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Automotive Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Automotive
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Automotive
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Automotive Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Automotive
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx 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 The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Automotive "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
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-- English Professor, Ohio University I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Automotive
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Automotive "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Automotive
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Automotive 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.
-- Winston Churchill It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Automotive
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer 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 human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Automotive I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Automotive
