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Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Luxembourg A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Luxembourg
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Luxembourg We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Luxembourg
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Luxembourg Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Luxembourg
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Luxembourg Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Luxembourg
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 "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 "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Luxembourg Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Luxembourg
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Luxembourg No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Luxembourg
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Luxembourg The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Luxembourg
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Luxembourg Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Luxembourg
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Luxembourg He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Luxembourg
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Luxembourg The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Luxembourg
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Luxembourg The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Luxembourg
