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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Government Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Government
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Government
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Government "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Government
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Government
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Government Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Government
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) 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 People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Government 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 The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Government
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Government Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Government
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Government Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Government
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Government "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Government
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Government There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran 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 Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Government
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Government Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Government
