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"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier 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 Paganism "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Paganism
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) 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 You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Paganism Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Paganism
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Paganism "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Paganism
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Paganism It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Paganism
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Paganism When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Paganism
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Paganism Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Paganism
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Paganism Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Paganism
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "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) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Paganism Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Paganism
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. Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Paganism Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Paganism
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Paganism There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Paganism
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Paganism "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Paganism
