Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) By Region blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show By Region
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein By Region You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury By Region
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland By Region Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine By Region
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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-- Niels Bohr I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
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-- Fred Astaire By Region
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Everything that can be invented has been invented.
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-- Ernie Kovacs By Region "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
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wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
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-- George Bernard Shaw By Region
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp By Region Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) By Region
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-- John Brown - last words The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde By Region Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
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-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) By Region
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) By Region Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
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Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) By Region "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld By Region
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
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-- Wil Shriner By Region He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson 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.
-- Anonymous By Region
