The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
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-- William Faulkner Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Advertising and Marketing It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Advertising and Marketing
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Advertising and Marketing It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
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-- Kant, Immanuel "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Advertising and Marketing
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Advertising and Marketing When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
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-- Cynthia H I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Advertising and Marketing
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Advertising and Marketing "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Advertising and Marketing
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
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-- Guy Almes One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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-- Bertrand Russell It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
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-- Rogers How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
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-- Abraham Lincoln Advertising and Marketing "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Advertising and Marketing
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Advertising and Marketing Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Advertising and Marketing
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Advertising and Marketing Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
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-- Tom Robbins "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Advertising and Marketing
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
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-- Arnold Toynbee Advertising and Marketing Marriage is a rest period between romances. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Advertising and Marketing
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
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-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Advertising and Marketing "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Advertising and Marketing
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
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-- Marcus Aurelius Advertising and Marketing "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
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marvelous str Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Advertising and Marketing
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Advertising and Marketing "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) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Advertising and Marketing
