You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
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-- Anon. Movies A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
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-- Oscar Wilde "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Movies
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
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- William Jennings Bryan Movies
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Movies Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
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-- Adlai Stevenson Movies
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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-- Oscar Wilde I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Movies I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald 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 Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Movies
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Movies "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
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-- Charles Lamb Movies
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
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tormenting the generations to come.
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-- James Lowell Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Movies What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
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-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Movies
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
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-- Thornton Wilder To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Movies Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Movies
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Someday is not a day of the week.
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-- Margaret Atwood Movies I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Movies
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
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- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Movies In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
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-- Carl Gustav Jung Movies
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Movies "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Movies
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Two souls with but a single thought,
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-- Fredrich Halm It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Movies "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Movies