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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Monte di Malo Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Monte di Malo
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Monte di Malo No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Monte di Malo
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Monte di Malo "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Monte di Malo
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Monte di Malo The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Monte di Malo
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Monte di Malo It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Monte di Malo
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Monte di Malo 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 "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Monte di Malo I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Monte di Malo
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Monte di Malo A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Monte di Malo
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Monte di Malo If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Monte di Malo
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Monte di Malo "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Monte di Malo
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Monte di Malo If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Monte di Malo
