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Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "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) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller History I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) History
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison 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 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin History Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) History
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) History Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton History
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) History If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. History
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had History Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard History
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. History "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz History
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley History Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda History
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying History Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche History
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. History Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset 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
campaign pledge that there would be "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co History
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou 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 We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) History The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous History
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) History Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. History
