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And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Parties "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Parties
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Parties 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 "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Parties 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 IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Parties
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "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 I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Parties "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Parties
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Parties Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Parties
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Parties "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Parties
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "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) Parties Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Parties
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Parties "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Parties
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Parties Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Parties
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Parties Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Parties
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Parties The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
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