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"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Russia The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Russia
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Russia Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Russia
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly 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 There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Russia "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Russia
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Russia Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Russia
"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) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Russia I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Russia
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Russia Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Russia
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Russia Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Russia
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Russia "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Russia
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Russia "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Russia
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Russia Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Russia
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Russia I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Russia
