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I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
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-- R. Scott Richards Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Middleton in Teesdale
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
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it herself.
- Anais Nin A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Middleton in Teesdale
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee 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 The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Middleton in Teesdale
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The covers of this book are too far apart.
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-- Rene Descartes When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
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-- P. J. O'Rourke Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
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There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
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inex Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) He who awaits much can expect little.
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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
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-- General Omar Bradley Middleton in Teesdale
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
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-- Winston Churchill "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Middleton in Teesdale
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
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He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Middleton in Teesdale Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Middleton in Teesdale
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Middleton in Teesdale 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 "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Middleton in Teesdale
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Do or do not. There is no try.
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-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Middleton in Teesdale
