In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Tobacconists Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Tobacconists
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Tobacconists I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Tobacconists
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Tobacconists Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Tobacconists
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Tobacconists "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Tobacconists
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Tobacconists All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Tobacconists
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Tobacconists "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Tobacconists
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 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. Tobacconists Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Tobacconists
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tobacconists Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Tobacconists
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Tobacconists "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Tobacconists
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Tobacconists Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Tobacconists
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Tobacconists "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. 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 Tobacconists
