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"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein U If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken U Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken U Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch U 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 Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle 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 Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard U If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford U You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson U "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset "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) U I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson U There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) U "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) U "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni U Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry U The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) U A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov U A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West U Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard U Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan U Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with U "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke U Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden U We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor U
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