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Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Religion In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Religion
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Religion Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Religion
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Religion "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Religion
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason 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 Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Religion >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Religion
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Religion You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Religion
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Religion Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Religion
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Religion A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Religion
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Religion What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Religion
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Religion Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Religion
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Religion I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Religion
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Religion Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Religion
