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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Phibsboro I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Phibsboro
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Phibsboro The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Phibsboro
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Phibsboro I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Phibsboro
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Phibsboro For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Phibsboro
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Phibsboro "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Phibsboro
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Phibsboro An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Phibsboro
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Phibsboro Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Phibsboro
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning 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 "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Phibsboro It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Phibsboro
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Phibsboro There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Phibsboro
Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Phibsboro "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. 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 Phibsboro
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Phibsboro If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Phibsboro
