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A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Transport Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Transport
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Transport I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Spinster: A bachelor's wife. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Transport
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Transport When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Transport
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Transport "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Transport
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Transport Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Transport
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Transport Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Transport
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Transport History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Transport
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Transport Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Transport
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Transport Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. 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." ( The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Transport
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Transport Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Transport
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Transport The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Transport
