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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West 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 Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Arts and Entertainment Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Arts and Entertainment
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Arts and Entertainment People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Arts and Entertainment Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "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) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Arts and Entertainment
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Arts and Entertainment
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Arts and Entertainment This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Arts and Entertainment
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Arts and Entertainment "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Arts and Entertainment
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Arts and Entertainment Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Arts and Entertainment
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Arts and Entertainment For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Arts and Entertainment
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Arts and Entertainment
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Arts and Entertainment This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "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) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Arts and Entertainment I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) 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?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Arts and Entertainment
