"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
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- Jeremy Taylor Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Radio "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Two souls with but a single thought,
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-- Fredrich Halm Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Radio
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
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-- Olin Miller Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Radio "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
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-- Wil Shriner You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Radio
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Radio "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Radio
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-- Helen Rowland Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Radio Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Radio
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
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- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Radio
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
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-- Johnny Carson I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
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-- Woody Allen Radio
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Radio Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Radio
"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) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
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you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Radio
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Radio blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
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-- Henry Ford Radio
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Radio "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Radio
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Radio If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Radio
