"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
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-- Oscar Wilde "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) He who limps is still walking.
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-- David Bissonette Haunted Houses
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
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-- Ernest Rutherford You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
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-- Robert Graves You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
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-- Douglas Coupland Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
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-- Oscar W "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Haunted Houses
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
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-- Euripides Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
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-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
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-- Isaac Asimov He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
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"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
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-- Oscar W Nobody ever died of laughter.
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-- Prince Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
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Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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-- Rita Mae Brown "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Haunted Houses
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-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
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The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Haunted Houses "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
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