Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Vilnyansk "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Vilnyansk
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Vilnyansk You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Vilnyansk
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "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) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Vilnyansk Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Vilnyansk
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Vilnyansk Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Vilnyansk
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Vilnyansk We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Vilnyansk
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Vilnyansk There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Vilnyansk
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Vilnyansk The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Vilnyansk
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Vilnyansk Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vilnyansk
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Vilnyansk Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Vilnyansk
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Vilnyansk When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Vilnyansk "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Vilnyansk
