No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin 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 "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Kosovo "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Kosovo
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler 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. "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Kosovo I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Kosovo
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Kosovo Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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 "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Kosovo
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 In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty 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 Kosovo It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Kosovo
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Kosovo A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Kosovo
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Kosovo I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Kosovo
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Kosovo Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Kosovo
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Kosovo When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday 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 Kosovo
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Kosovo I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Kosovo
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Kosovo "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Kosovo
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Kosovo 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 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
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