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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Spanish Point 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 Nietzsche Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Spanish Point
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Spanish Point The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Spanish Point
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Spanish Point Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Spanish Point
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Spanish Point I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Spanish Point
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Spanish Point Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Spanish Point
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Spanish Point You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Spanish Point
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Spanish Point If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Spanish Point
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Spanish Point "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Spanish Point
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Spanish Point In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Spanish Point
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy What's new? Most of my wife. "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) 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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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Spanish Point I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Spanish Point
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Spanish Point It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Spanish Point
