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The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Friendship It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Friendship
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Friendship It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Friendship
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Friendship "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Friendship
"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) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Friendship Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Friendship
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Friendship "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Friendship
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Friendship I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Friendship
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Friendship We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Friendship
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Friendship I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Friendship
"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) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Friendship Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Friendship
May you never leave your marriage alive. "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Friendship And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Friendship
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Friendship Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Friendship
