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We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Bruno The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bruno
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Bruno Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Bruno
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Bruno Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Bruno
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Bruno Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Bruno
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Bruno "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Bruno
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bruno Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Bruno
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "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) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Bruno "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bruno
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Bruno I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Bruno
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Bruno ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Bruno
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Bruno Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Bruno
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Bruno I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Bruno
