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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Ploiesti No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau 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 Ploiesti
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin 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 Ploiesti The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Ploiesti
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Ploiesti You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Ploiesti
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Ploiesti No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Ploiesti
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Ploiesti Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Ploiesti
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Ploiesti "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Ploiesti
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Ploiesti "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Ploiesti
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ploiesti Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Ploiesti
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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' "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Ploiesti "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Ploiesti
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Ploiesti May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Ploiesti
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Ploiesti "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, If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Ploiesti
