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"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Carrara Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Carrara
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Carrara The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Carrara
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner 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 The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Carrara Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Carrara
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Carrara A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Carrara
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Carrara There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Carrara
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Carrara "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Carrara
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, 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 If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Carrara "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) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Carrara
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Carrara "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Carrara
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Carrara Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Carrara
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Carrara Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Carrara
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Carrara Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Carrara
