"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Neighboring Countries You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Neighboring Countries
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Neighboring Countries The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Neighboring Countries
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) 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." ( Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Neighboring Countries "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Neighboring Countries
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Neighboring Countries "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Neighboring Countries
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Neighboring Countries 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 When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Neighboring Countries
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Neighboring Countries "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Neighboring Countries
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Neighboring Countries Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Neighboring Countries People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Neighboring Countries
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Neighboring Countries What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Neighboring Countries
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Neighboring Countries Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) 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.
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"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "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) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Neighboring Countries Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Whatever you are, be a good one.
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