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"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Arts and Entertainment Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Arts and Entertainment
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Arts and Entertainment Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Arts and Entertainment
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Arts and Entertainment
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Arts and Entertainment The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Arts and Entertainment
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Spinster: A bachelor's wife. I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Arts and Entertainment When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Arts and Entertainment
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Arts and Entertainment 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 The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Arts and Entertainment
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Arts and Entertainment
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Arts and Entertainment "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Arts and Entertainment
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Arts and Entertainment And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Arts and Entertainment
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Arts and Entertainment blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Arts and Entertainment 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 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 "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Arts and Entertainment
