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Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke News and Media Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin News and Media
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) News and Media Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe News and Media
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do News and Media A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly News and Media
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein News and Media
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous News and Media "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford News and Media
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "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) News and Media Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins News and Media
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs News and Media "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. News and Media
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous News and Media Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle News and Media
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) News and Media "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken News and Media
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard News and Media I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous News and Media
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen News and Media "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) News and Media
