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"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Religion Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Religion
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) My other wife is beautiful. If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Religion To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Religion
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Religion Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Religion
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) 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
bre Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Religion An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Religion
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Religion Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Religion
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Religion Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Religion
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Religion When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Religion
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Religion A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Religion
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Religion Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Religion
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Religion "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) 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 Religion
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Religion Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Religion
