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-- Abraham Lincoln Directories We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
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-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Directories
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Directories The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
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The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
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-- Luther Burbank, dying words Directories "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
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-- Alexander Pope History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Directories
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra 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 Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
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-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Directories All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
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All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
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-- Albert Einstein, attributed Directories "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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-- Quentin Crisp Directories
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
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-- Antonio Machado Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Directories "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Directories If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "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) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Directories
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Directories You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Directories
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 Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Directories There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Directories
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Directories Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Directories
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Directories I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
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