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Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Real Estate A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Real Estate
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "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) Real Estate I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Real Estate
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Real Estate My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Real Estate
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous 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 We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Real Estate Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Real Estate
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Real Estate "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Real Estate
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Real Estate "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Real Estate
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce 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 Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Real Estate 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 I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Real Estate
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Real Estate Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Real Estate
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Real Estate Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Real Estate
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Real Estate Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon 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 Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Real Estate
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert 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 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Real Estate If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Real Estate
