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And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Press Agencies Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Press Agencies
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Press Agencies Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Press Agencies
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Press Agencies The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "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) Press Agencies
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Press Agencies Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins 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 Press Agencies
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Press Agencies Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Press Agencies
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart 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 Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Press Agencies May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Press Agencies
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Press Agencies Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Press Agencies
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Press Agencies Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Press Agencies
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Press Agencies I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "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) Press Agencies
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Press Agencies Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Press Agencies
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
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Press Agencies "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Press Agencies
