A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Storage and Protection I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
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Uncl Storage and Protection "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
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-- Dawn French With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Storage and Protection
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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-- Sigmund Freud All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
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We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
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-- Nick Mirov If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Storage and Protection You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
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-- Fred Allen Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
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-- Bertrand Russell Storage and Protection
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
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- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Storage and Protection "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Storage and Protection
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Storage and Protection Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "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) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Storage and Protection
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Storage and Protection
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Storage and Protection Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Storage and Protection
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Storage and Protection If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Storage and Protection
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Storage and Protection "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Storage and Protection
