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tender.
-- Mary Buckley Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Home and Property Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Home and Property
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Home and Property I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Home and Property
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Home and Property I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
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-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Home and Property
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Home and Property 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 . . .
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other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Home and Property
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
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in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Home and Property
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Home and Property My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Home and Property
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Home and Property The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Home and Property
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
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-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
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Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr May you never leave your marriage alive. "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 I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Home and Property 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 "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' The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Home and Property
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Home and Property Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove 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
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If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "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) Home and Property That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Home and Property
