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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 Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler News and Media There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) News and Media
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) News and Media Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer News and Media
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l News and Media "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) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge News and Media
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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 I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard News and Media God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin News and Media
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) News and Media Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar News and Media
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado 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 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 News and Media "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) News and Media
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) News and Media 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 I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 News and Media
"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 Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard News and Media My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig 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 "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) News and Media
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost News and Media Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns News and Media
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth News and Media "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein News and Media
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale News and Media Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
