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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Iberian Peninsula The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Iberian Peninsula
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Iberian Peninsula Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Iberian Peninsula
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Iberian Peninsula Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Iberian Peninsula "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) 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 Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Iberian Peninsula
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Iberian Peninsula Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Iberian Peninsula
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Iberian Peninsula The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Iberian Peninsula
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Iberian Peninsula When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Iberian Peninsula
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Iberian Peninsula "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Iberian Peninsula
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Iberian Peninsula You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Iberian Peninsula
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Iberian Peninsula then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Iberian Peninsula
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Iberian Peninsula A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Iberian Peninsula
