It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
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optic Municipalities "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Municipalities
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
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-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Municipalities The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Municipalities
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
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-- Thomas Henry Huxley 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 Municipalities
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Municipalities This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
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-- Will Rogers Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Municipalities
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
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-- Anonymous Municipalities "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
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-- George Bus "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Municipalities
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
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-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Municipalities Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Municipalities
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. "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) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Municipalities "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Municipalities
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Municipalities
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
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- Robert Frost 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 Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Municipalities Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
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Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Municipalities Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "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 Municipalities
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) 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 Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Municipalities I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Municipalities
