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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) San Cassiano "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
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-- Olin Miller I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming San Cassiano
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
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-- Benjamin Franklin An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort San Cassiano
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus San Cassiano The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
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remember what A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb San Cassiano
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner All television is children's television.
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-- Groucho Marx Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey San Cassiano
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) San Cassiano Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
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-- Dave Barry San Cassiano
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) San Cassiano 'Tis better to have loved and lost
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-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Politics have no relation to morals.
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-- Gandhi San Cassiano
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
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-- G. K. Chesterton San Cassiano
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
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The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein 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 I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. San Cassiano Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar San Cassiano
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
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-- Ken Dodd San Cassiano Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "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) San Cassiano
