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"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
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-- Virginia Woolf Skinningrove I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
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-- Lisa Moriyama My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Skinningrove
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Skinningrove This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
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-- Katharine Hepburn The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Skinningrove
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "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) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Skinningrove Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
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-- H. L. Mencken Skinningrove
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
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-- Harry S. Truman I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Skinningrove
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
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-- Sam Kinison "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Skinningrove
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) 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 A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Skinningrove 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 Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Skinningrove
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Skinningrove If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Skinningrove
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac My other wife is beautiful. Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Skinningrove "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Skinningrove
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Skinningrove If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Skinningrove
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Skinningrove Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Skinningrove
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Skinningrove The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Skinningrove
