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I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Bozen Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Bozen
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Bozen One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Bozen
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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Bozen "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) 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 I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Bozen
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Bozen Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Bozen
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "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) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Bozen Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Bozen
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "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) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Bozen When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Bozen
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that 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 There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Bozen In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Bozen
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland 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 I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod 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 Bozen "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Bozen
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "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) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Bozen I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Bozen
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Bozen Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Bozen
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) 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 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Bozen The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Bozen
