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"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Mari The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Mari
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Mari "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Mari
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Mari I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Mari
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 Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Mari It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Mari
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Mari A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Mari
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Mari A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Mari
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Mari "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Mari
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Mari The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Mari
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa 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 Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Mari 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Mari
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Mari "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Mari
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Mari "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Mari
