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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Monteu Roero It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Monteu Roero
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) 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
the fl Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Monteu Roero Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Monteu Roero
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Monteu Roero "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Monteu Roero
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Monteu Roero Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Monteu Roero
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Monteu Roero 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 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Monteu Roero
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Monteu Roero Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Monteu Roero
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Monteu Roero Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Monteu Roero
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Monteu Roero Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Monteu Roero
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Monteu Roero Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Monteu Roero
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "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) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Monteu Roero "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Monteu Roero
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Monteu Roero All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart 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 Monteu Roero
