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"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Religion "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Religion
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Religion "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Religion
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Religion Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Religion
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. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Religion We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Religion
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Religion A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Religion
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Religion The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Religion
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "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) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Religion Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Religion
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Religion The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Religion
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Religion Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Religion
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Religion The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Religion
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Religion Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Religion
