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Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Listings Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Listings
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "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 Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Listings "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Listings
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Listings Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Listings
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Listings Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Listings
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Listings 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 "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Listings
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) 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. A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Listings "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) 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 Listings
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Listings blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Listings
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Listings "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Listings
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Listings "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Listings
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi 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) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Listings "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Listings
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Listings Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Listings
