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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Property "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Property
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "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) Property Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Property
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Property "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Property
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Property "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Property
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Property Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Property
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Property Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Property
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Property I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Property
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Property Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Property
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Property Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Property
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Property "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Property
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "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." The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Property What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Property
