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"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
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-- George Bernard Shaw Chats and Forums In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
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ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Chats and Forums Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Chats and Forums
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Chats and Forums In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Chats and Forums
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Chats and Forums Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Chats and Forums
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Chats and Forums The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Chats and Forums
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Chats and Forums Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Chats and Forums
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Chats and Forums Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
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-- Thomas Carlyle I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Chats and Forums
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Chats and Forums Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Chats and Forums
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Chats and Forums Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Chats and Forums "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Chats and Forums
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin 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 "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Chats and Forums May you never leave your marriage alive. A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
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