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-- John Donne Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous 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 Organisations Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato 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 Organisations
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Organisations If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Organisations
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Organisations In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Organisations
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Organisations The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Organisations
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James 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 Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Organisations Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
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-- David Mamet Organisations
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe 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 The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Organisations If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Organisations
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Organisations Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Organisations
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Organisations But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Organisations
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Organisations I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Organisations
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Organisations Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Organisations
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Organisations I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Organisations
