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"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Attractions We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Attractions
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Attractions History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Attractions
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Attractions "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Attractions
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Attractions Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Attractions
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Attractions "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Attractions
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Attractions Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Attractions
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Attractions Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis 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 Attractions
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Attractions Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Attractions
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Attractions "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Attractions
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Attractions When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Attractions
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) 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 formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Attractions Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "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) Attractions
