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-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Appraisers I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil 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" Appraisers
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Appraisers Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Appraisers
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Appraisers Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson 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" Appraisers
"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 "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
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-- Arnold Toynbee Appraisers I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Appraisers
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Appraisers The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Appraisers
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Appraisers blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Appraisers
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Appraisers It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Appraisers
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "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 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Appraisers Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Appraisers Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Appraisers
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Appraisers "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Appraisers
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Appraisers If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Appraisers
