We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
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-- John Renmerde We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
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-- Albert Einstein "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
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UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
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-- Betty Bender Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
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"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
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-- Anon. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
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-- Lucille S. Harper 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 Askaniya Nova English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Askaniya Nova Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
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-- Joseph Addison We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Askaniya Nova
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Askaniya Nova The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
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-- S. T. Coleridge The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Askaniya Nova
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-- Heywood Brown The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
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-- George Bernard Shaw Askaniya Nova We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
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-- Harry Truman In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
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-- Mortimer J. Adler "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Askaniya Nova
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Askaniya Nova I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
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-- Martin Luther Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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