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The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Laundry I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Laundry
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Laundry "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Laundry
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Laundry Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Laundry
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Laundry The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Laundry
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laundry Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Laundry
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Laundry If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Laundry
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "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 Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Laundry Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Laundry
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Laundry In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Laundry
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Laundry I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Laundry
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Laundry A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Laundry
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Laundry "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Laundry
