Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Geographical Areas This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Geographical Areas
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Geographical Areas "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Geographical Areas
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Geographical Areas When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Geographical Areas
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Geographical Areas The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Geographical Areas
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Geographical Areas Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Geographical Areas
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Geographical Areas Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Geographical Areas
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Geographical Areas We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Geographical Areas
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Geographical Areas The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Geographical Areas
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Geographical Areas "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Geographical Areas
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Geographical Areas Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
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"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Geographical Areas "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Geographical Areas