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Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Antiques and Collectibles 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 "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Antiques and Collectibles
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Antiques and Collectibles In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Antiques and Collectibles
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Antiques and Collectibles "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
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- Arthur Schopenhauer Antiques and Collectibles
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Antiques and Collectibles Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
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-- Robert Briffault Antiques and Collectibles
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Antiques and Collectibles ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Antiques and Collectibles
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Antiques and Collectibles Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham 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 The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
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"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Antiques and Collectibles At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
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-- Samuel Butler Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Antiques and Collectibles
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Every flower must grow through dirt.
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responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Antiques and Collectibles
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Antiques and Collectibles Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Antiques and Collectibles
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
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-- John Harrigan Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
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-- Howard Aiken To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Antiques and Collectibles
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I hate work. That's why I got married.
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-- C. Stacey Woods I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Antiques and Collectibles
