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"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Ely blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Ely
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Ely Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Ely
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill 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 If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Ely Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Ely
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 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 Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Ely A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Ely
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Ely If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Ely
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Ely Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) 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 Ely
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Ely "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Ely
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Ely One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Ely
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Ely It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Ely
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. Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Ely "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Ely
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Ely The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Ely
