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"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Women Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant 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 Women
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 Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Women A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Women
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Women "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Women
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Women Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Women
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Women Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Women
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Women "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Women
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Women Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Women
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell 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 Women Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Women
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill 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
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Women Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Women
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Women Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Women
"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) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Women What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Women
