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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Fosdinovo There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Fosdinovo
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Fosdinovo Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Fosdinovo
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Fosdinovo You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Fosdinovo
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Fosdinovo Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Fosdinovo
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Fosdinovo Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Fosdinovo
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Fosdinovo When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Fosdinovo
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Fosdinovo "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) 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 Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Fosdinovo
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Fosdinovo "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Fosdinovo
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius 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 heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "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 "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Fosdinovo Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Fosdinovo
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Fosdinovo The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Fosdinovo
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) 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.
-- Winston Churchill Fosdinovo Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fosdinovo
