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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Mijas I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Mijas
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Mijas No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Mijas
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 In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "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) Mijas I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Mijas
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Mijas I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Mijas
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Mijas I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Mijas
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Mijas I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Mijas
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Mijas "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Mijas
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Mijas Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Mijas
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mijas Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Mijas
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Mijas There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Mijas
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Mijas The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Mijas
