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in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
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-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Localities Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Localities
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
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missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Localities
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Localities Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Count your age with friends but not with years.
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-- Oscar Wilde Localities The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Localities
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes 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 "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Localities Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Localities
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-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Localities Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Localities
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Localities There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Localities
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Localities It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Localities
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Never moon a werewolf.
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closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Localities Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Localities
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Localities There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
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