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"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Orthodox Church Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Orthodox Church
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey 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 "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Orthodox Church Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Orthodox Church
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Orthodox Church Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Orthodox Church
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Orthodox Church "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Orthodox Church
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Orthodox Church "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Orthodox Church
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Orthodox Church Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Orthodox Church
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) 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
campaign Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Orthodox Church Spinster: A bachelor's wife. A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Orthodox Church
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Orthodox Church 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 "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Orthodox Church
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Orthodox Church Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Orthodox Church
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Orthodox Church If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Orthodox Church
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Orthodox Church Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Orthodox Church
