"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Urals "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Urals
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Urals The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Urals
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Urals No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Urals
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday 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 Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Urals 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 Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Urals
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "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) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Urals Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Urals
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Urals One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Urals
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) 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 "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Urals It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Urals
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 Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Urals The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Urals
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Urals Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Urals
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Urals "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Urals
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Urals "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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