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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
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-- Anon. Biology
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
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Uncl Biology No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Biology
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Biology The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Biology
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Biology If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
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-- Prince "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Biology He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Biology Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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-- Dave Barry Biology In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Biology
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Biology "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Biology
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Biology Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Biology
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Biology When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Biology
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Biology Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Biology
