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Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Moscow Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Moscow
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Moscow I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Moscow
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Moscow "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Moscow
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Moscow "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Moscow
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Moscow Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Moscow
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Moscow We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Moscow
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 What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Moscow I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Moscow
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Moscow Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Moscow
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Moscow Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Moscow
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Moscow "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Moscow
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Moscow It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Moscow
