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A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, V If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) V
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) V To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) V
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous V Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, V
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams V Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde V
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha V All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli V
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" V Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago V
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning V "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman V
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw V People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. V
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel V "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) V
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin V As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) 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 V
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th V There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W V
