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-- Robert Browning I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Publications Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
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"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Publications Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Publications
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
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-- Oscar Wilde Publications "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Publications The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Publications
"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) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Publications An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Publications
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Publications Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) 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 The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Publications
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning 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 I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Publications The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Publications
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Publications Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
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-- Howard Aiken "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Publications
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Publications The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Publications
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Publications The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Publications
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Publications Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Publications
