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Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 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 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Ruffano Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Ruffano
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Ruffano He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Ruffano
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber 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 "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Ruffano A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Ruffano
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Ruffano The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Ruffano
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Ruffano Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Ruffano
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Ruffano Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Ruffano
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran 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 When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Ruffano The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ruffano
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Ruffano Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 Ruffano
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Ruffano "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ruffano
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Ruffano Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Ruffano
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Ruffano I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Ruffano
