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-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Stoke Hammond It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Stoke Hammond
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-- Lucille Ball Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Stoke Hammond "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Stoke Hammond
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
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-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Stoke Hammond
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-- Dawn French "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Stoke Hammond
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
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-- Aldous Huxley "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Stoke Hammond I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
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-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Stoke Hammond
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Stoke Hammond "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) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
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Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
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upon the lev A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Stoke Hammond "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 "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
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-- George Carlin Stoke Hammond
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Stoke Hammond If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Stoke Hammond
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell 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 The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Stoke Hammond Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Stoke Hammond
"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 Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
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cough.
-- Pearl Williams Stoke Hammond Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Stoke Hammond
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana 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 Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Stoke Hammond If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Stoke Hammond
