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"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) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Newlyn Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Newlyn
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Newlyn Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Newlyn
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Newlyn I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Newlyn
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Newlyn A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Newlyn
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Newlyn You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Newlyn
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau 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 Newlyn "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o 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 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 Newlyn
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Newlyn You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Newlyn
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Newlyn My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Newlyn
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Newlyn Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Newlyn
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Newlyn "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Newlyn "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Newlyn
