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It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Directories "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Directories
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 And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Directories It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Directories
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Directories Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Directories
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Directories Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Directories
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
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couldn't cha "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Directories Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Directories
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Directories Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Directories
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca 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 Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Directories Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Directories
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Directories Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Directories
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Directories If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Directories
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Directories Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Directories
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous May you never leave your marriage alive. "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Directories Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Directories
