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"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Mediterranean He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Mediterranean
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Mediterranean Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Mediterranean
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Mediterranean There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Mediterranean
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Mediterranean When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Mediterranean
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Mediterranean Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Mediterranean
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan 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 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Mediterranean "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Mediterranean
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Mediterranean Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "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' "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Mediterranean
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Mediterranean The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Mediterranean
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca 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 Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Mediterranean Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Mediterranean
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Mediterranean Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Mediterranean
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Mediterranean Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Mediterranean
