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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Hurst Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Hurst
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Hurst "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Hurst
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Hurst I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Hurst
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Hurst "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Hurst
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Hurst "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Hurst
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Hurst If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Hurst
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Hurst The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Hurst
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Hurst Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Hurst
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Hurst There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Hurst
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) 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 Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Hurst Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Hurst
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Hurst Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Hurst
