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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r News and Media Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn News and Media
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. 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 Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford News and Media Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) News and Media
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is News and Media For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 News and Media
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard News and Media To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) News and Media
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) News and Media The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove News and Media
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous News and Media In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting News and Media
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 Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life News and Media When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. News and Media
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard News and Media The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov News and Media
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius News and Media Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West News and Media
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, News and Media A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder News and Media
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre News and Media 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 Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) News and Media
