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The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Dingle Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Dingle
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Dingle I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Dingle
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Dingle Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Dingle
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Dingle The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Dingle
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Dingle Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Dingle
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Dingle All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Dingle
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Dingle Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Dingle
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Dingle Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Dingle
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Dingle 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 Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Dingle
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Dingle When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Dingle
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Dingle Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Dingle
