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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Television Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Television
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Television Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Television
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Television "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Television
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Television If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Television
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Television I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Television
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Television Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Television
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Television "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Television
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Television "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Television
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "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) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Television Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Television
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 The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Television The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Television
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Television "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Television
