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Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and 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 Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) News and Media Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "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) News and Media
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke 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 Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller News and Media Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem News and Media
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi News and Media The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) News and Media
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa News and Media Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin News and Media
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood News and Media Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) News and Media
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty News and Media "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. News and Media
"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) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) News and Media "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) News and Media
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber News and Media Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn News and Media
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show News and Media The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad News and Media
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar News and Media "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) News and Media
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa News and Media
