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Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Lauragh Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Lauragh
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Lauragh We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Lauragh
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 I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lauragh If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Lauragh
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Lauragh For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Lauragh
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Lauragh Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Lauragh
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Lauragh "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 In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Lauragh
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Lauragh This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lauragh
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Lauragh The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Lauragh
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Lauragh I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Lauragh
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Lauragh The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "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 Lauragh
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Lauragh Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Lauragh
