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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Chats and Forums Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Chats and Forums
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Chats and Forums If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Chats and Forums
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Chats and Forums Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Chats and Forums
"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 Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Chats and Forums A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Chats and Forums
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Chats and Forums "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Chats and Forums
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Chats and Forums All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Chats and Forums
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Chats and Forums The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Chats and Forums
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 "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Chats and Forums "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Chats and Forums
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Chats and Forums There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Chats and Forums
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 Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chats and Forums >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Chats and Forums
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Chats and Forums The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Chats and Forums
