"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Pets Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pets
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Pets Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
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-- George A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Pets
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appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
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-- Adolf Hitler Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
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-- Henry Miller Pets
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Pets The church is the great lost and found department.
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-- Robert M. Pirsig Pets
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Pets Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
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chara Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
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-- Winston Churchill Pets I hate work. That's why I got married.
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- James Stephens Pets
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
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-- John Greenleaf Whittier Pets Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
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-- Fran Lebowitz If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
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really Pets There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
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-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Pets Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Pets
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Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Pets The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Pets
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Pets "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
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