Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Environment "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Environment
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Environment The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Environment
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Environment In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Environment
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Environment Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Environment
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Environment I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Environment
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Environment Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Environment
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Environment "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) 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 When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Environment
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli 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 Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Environment Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Environment
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 "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Environment Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Environment
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise 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 Environment "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Environment
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Environment I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Environment
