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Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
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-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 My other wife is beautiful. The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
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-- Anatole France Deruta
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-- Albert Einstein We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Deruta "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Deruta
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
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-- American Proverb Deruta
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
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passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
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-- Anonymous Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
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is The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
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-- Brendon Behan Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
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All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
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-- Fred Astaire "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Deruta The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
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- Al Capone The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Deruta Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi To love another person is to help them love God.
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-- Anatole France Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
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-- Robert Browning "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Deruta
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
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-- Harry Truman Deruta
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
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...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "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) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Deruta Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
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-- Oscar Wilde I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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