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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Strings All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Strings
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Strings America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Strings
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Strings Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Strings
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. 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 Strings The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Strings
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Strings Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Strings
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Strings Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Strings
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Strings A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Strings
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Strings Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Strings
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Strings The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Strings
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Strings blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Strings
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Strings "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Strings
