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Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
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-- Rita Rudner Search Engines "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Search Engines The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
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The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
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-- Harry Shearer I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Search Engines
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Search Engines Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
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-- Anonymous A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Search Engines
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Search Engines History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
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-- Joseph Addison Search Engines
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Search Engines May you never leave your marriage alive. "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
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-- Arnold Toynbee Search Engines
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Search Engines It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Search Engines
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
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Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
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-- Katharine Hepburn Search Engines We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
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