When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Localities Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Localities
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Localities "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Localities
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Localities Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Localities
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Localities "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Localities
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Localities All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Localities
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Localities As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Localities
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Localities If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Localities
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor My other wife is beautiful. My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Localities I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Localities
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Localities 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 Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Localities
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Localities The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Localities
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Localities Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
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