The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Gaming "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
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-- John Kenneth Galbraith Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Gaming
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Gaming Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Gaming
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Gaming "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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 Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Gaming
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Gaming A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
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-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Gaming
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Gaming If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Gaming
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Gaming I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
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-- John Barrymore - last words Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Gaming
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
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-- Robert Briffault Gaming He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Gaming
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Gaming Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
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-- Holbrook Jackson "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Gaming
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Gaming "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Gaming
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues 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 "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
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-- Wil Shriner Gaming He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Gaming No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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