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She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Television I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe 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
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I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Television By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Television
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Television Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Television
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Television A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Television
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo 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 "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Television Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Television
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero 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 Television Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Television
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Television "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Television
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Television Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Television
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Television The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Television
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Television "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Television
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Television Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 Television
