He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Salons and Spas "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
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-- Alvin Toffler Salons and Spas
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "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) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Salons and Spas If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Salons and Spas You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy 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 Salons and Spas
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Salons and Spas It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Salons and Spas
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Salons and Spas Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Salons and Spas
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Salons and Spas The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
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-- William James A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
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-- Alexander Pope These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Salons and Spas
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Salons and Spas There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
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-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Salons and Spas
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Salons and Spas Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Salons and Spas
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 "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Salons and Spas The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Salons and Spas
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Salons and Spas It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Salons and Spas
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Salons and Spas Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
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