The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Home and Garden It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- 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) Home and Garden
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Home and Garden I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Home and Garden
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Home and Garden "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Home and Garden
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Home and Garden "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Home and Garden
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Home and Garden "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Home and Garden
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Home and Garden Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Home and Garden
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Home and Garden Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) 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 Home and Garden
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Home and Garden Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Home and Garden
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Home and Garden Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Home and Garden
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Home and Garden Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Home and Garden
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Home and Garden God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
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