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-- Steven Wright "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Property It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Property
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Property Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Property
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Property "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Property
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying 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 Property To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Property
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Property 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 Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Property
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Property The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Property
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Property Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Property
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Property A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Property
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Property "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Property
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Property If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Property
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Property Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Property
