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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Cambridge It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Cambridge
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Cambridge "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) 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. Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Cambridge
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) 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 Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Cambridge "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Cambridge
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Cambridge I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Cambridge
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 had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. 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 Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Cambridge "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Cambridge
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Cambridge When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Cambridge
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Cambridge "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Cambridge
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Cambridge Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Cambridge
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Cambridge Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Cambridge
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Cambridge Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Cambridge
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Cambridge Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Cambridge
