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Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Florence What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Florence
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Florence Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Florence
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Florence "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Florence
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Florence "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Florence
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin 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 Florence The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Florence
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Florence Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Florence
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Florence "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
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"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Florence "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) 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 "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Florence
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) 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 Florence "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Florence
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb 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 Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Florence I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Florence
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Florence A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Florence
