Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
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-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
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-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Buses
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
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-- Dag Hammarskjold "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
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-- Albert Einstein The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Buses
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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-- Niels Bohr When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
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-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Buses
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Buses I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
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-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Buses It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Buses
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Buses The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
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-- Anonymous To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Buses
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Buses It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
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-- Katharine Hepburn Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
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- Niels Bohr Buses I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
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-- Groucho Marx To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
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dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Buses
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Buses Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Buses Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
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-- Jacob Braude I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Buses
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Buses You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
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