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"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Literature Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Literature
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "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 Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Literature "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) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Literature
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Literature "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Literature
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Literature People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Literature
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Literature A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Literature
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Literature Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Literature
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "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) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Literature I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Literature Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Literature
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Literature The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Literature
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Literature 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 The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Literature
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Literature It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
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