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"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) 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 If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Bialystok Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Bialystok
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Bialystok "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Bialystok
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Bialystok "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
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-- H. L. Mencken The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Bialystok
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
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-- Russell Green They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Bialystok
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Bialystok This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Bialystok
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bialystok "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bialystok
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Bialystok Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. I shall return.
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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Bialystok "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Bialystok
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
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-- John Tudor There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Bialystok In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Bialystok
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Bialystok We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "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 "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Bialystok
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Bialystok "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Bialystok