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"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Soleto Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Soleto
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Soleto 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 "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Soleto
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Soleto Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Soleto
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Soleto "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Soleto
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Soleto As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Soleto
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Soleto Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Soleto
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Soleto Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Soleto
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Soleto I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Soleto
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 "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Soleto "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Soleto We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Soleto
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Soleto The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Soleto
