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I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Halland County Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Halland County
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Halland County blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Halland County
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Halland County Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley 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 Halland County
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Halland County We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Halland County
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Halland County I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Halland County
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Halland County Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Halland County
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Halland County A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Halland County
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Halland County "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) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante 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? Halland County
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Halland County I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Halland County
"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') A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell 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 "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Halland County We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Halland County
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Halland County "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Halland County
