MaxiMadness - On the merchandise around the wedding between Crown Prince Willem-Alexandra and Maxima Zorreguieta from the perspective of a foreigner.
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-- John Donne It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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- Aristotle Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Royal Family
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
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We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Royal Family Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
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language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
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those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
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I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
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-- G. K. Chesterton Royal Family
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 Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
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For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
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Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
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can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
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-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Royal Family
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
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- Irving Kristol Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Royal Family If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Royal Family
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Royal Family Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Royal Family
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Royal Family No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Royal Family
