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I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
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-- Calvin Trillin Bovolone
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Bovolone Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Bovolone
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Bovolone "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Bovolone
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.
-- Anonymous What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Bovolone She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
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"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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-- Lucille S. Harper A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
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-- Will Rogers Bovolone
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) 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 "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Bovolone America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
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-- Ambrose Bierce Bovolone
The church is the great lost and found department.
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-- Sophocles There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Bovolone
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Bovolone "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Bovolone
"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) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Bovolone Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Bovolone
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Bovolone 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 When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Bovolone
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Bovolone But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bovolone
