It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha >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 A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Christian If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Christian
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Christian "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) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Christian
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Christian "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Christian
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa 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 The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Christian When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Christian
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Christian For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Christian
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Christian "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Christian
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Christian Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Christian
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 Christian "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Christian
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Christian Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Christian
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Christian My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Christian
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Christian It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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