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Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Tatar "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Tatar
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Tatar Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Tatar
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright 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 Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Tatar "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Tatar
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Tatar All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "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 "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Tatar
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Tatar All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tatar
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Tatar Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tatar
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Tatar "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e 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 Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Tatar
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig 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 My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Tatar Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Tatar
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Tatar Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Tatar
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot 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 Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Tatar Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Tatar
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tatar If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Tatar
