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Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Directors Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Directors
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Directors Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Directors
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Directors Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Directors
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Directors May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Directors
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone 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 Directors "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Directors
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Directors A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Directors
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Directors Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley 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 "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Directors
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Directors This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Directors
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Directors "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Directors
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Directors If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa 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 Directors
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Directors The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Directors
