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That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Construction "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Construction
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Construction My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Construction
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Construction People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Construction
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Construction I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Construction
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Construction That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Construction
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Construction Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Construction
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Construction Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Construction
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Construction Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
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"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Construction A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Construction
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Construction 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 The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Construction
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Construction The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Construction
