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Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Monasterevin That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Monasterevin
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Monasterevin I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Monasterevin
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Monasterevin 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 Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Monasterevin
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 There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Monasterevin Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Monasterevin
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Monasterevin Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Monasterevin
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Monasterevin No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Monasterevin
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Monasterevin Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Monasterevin
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Monasterevin "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Monasterevin
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Monasterevin "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Monasterevin
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Monasterevin Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Monasterevin
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Monasterevin In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "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 Monasterevin
