"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 Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin North Holland Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) North Holland
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine North Holland A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "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) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik North Holland A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
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-- H. Jackson Brown North Holland
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain North Holland Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw North Holland Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche North Holland
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale North Holland Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
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I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton North Holland Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai North Holland "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) North Holland
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux North Holland "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) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) North Holland
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson North Holland For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry North Holland
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe North Holland Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf North Holland
