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Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Arts and Entertainment 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 I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Arts and Entertainment
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) 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 You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Arts and Entertainment The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Arts and Entertainment
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Arts and Entertainment
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Arts and Entertainment When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Arts and Entertainment
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Arts and Entertainment
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Arts and Entertainment By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Arts and Entertainment
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Arts and Entertainment Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Arts and Entertainment
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Arts and Entertainment When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Arts and Entertainment
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Arts and Entertainment "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Arts and Entertainment You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Arts and Entertainment
