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Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Foreign The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Foreign
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck 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 If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Foreign Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Foreign
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Foreign "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Foreign
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Foreign Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Foreign
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Foreign I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Foreign
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Foreign Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Foreign
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "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) Foreign He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Foreign
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Foreign If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Foreign
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Foreign When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Foreign
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Foreign Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Foreign
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Foreign "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Foreign
