Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Loans Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Loans
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Loans If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
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Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) 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 Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Loans Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Loans
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Loans Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Loans
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Loans Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Loans
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Loans Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Loans
"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." blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Loans "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Loans
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Loans There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Loans
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Loans "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Loans
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright 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 Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Loans Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Loans
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Loans A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
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