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As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) 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 This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers E "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. E
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de E Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) E
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) 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.
-- Anonymous He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) E The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
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We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) 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 man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford E If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman E
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) E "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger E
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson E "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student E
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
bre "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully E Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard 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 I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner E
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and E You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane E
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein E "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. E
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." E We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
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Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle E "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 E
