If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
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-- Mark Twain "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
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"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Lake Trasimeno Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
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"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Think off-center." (George Carlin) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lake Trasimeno blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Lake Trasimeno I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
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"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Lake Trasimeno "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Lake Trasimeno You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Lake Trasimeno
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lake Trasimeno This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
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-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
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- Ludwig Wittgenstein Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
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Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov 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 You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Lake Trasimeno To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Lake Trasimeno I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
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