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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Indie Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Indie
Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Indie Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Indie
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Indie The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Indie
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Indie The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Indie
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Indie Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Indie
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Indie Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Indie
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Indie Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Indie
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Indie A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Indie
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Indie "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Indie
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Indie "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Indie
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Indie >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Indie
