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"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Malung I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Malung
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Malung When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Malung
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Malung We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Malung
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Malung "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Malung
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th 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 There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Malung When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Malung
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Malung "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Malung
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Malung "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Malung
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Malung "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Malung
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Malung This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Malung
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Malung Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Malung
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Malung Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Malung
