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What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright 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) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Wolsingham Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Wolsingham
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Wolsingham Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Wolsingham
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Wolsingham He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Wolsingham
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Wolsingham I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Wolsingham
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Wolsingham I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Wolsingham
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Wolsingham You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Wolsingham
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Wolsingham History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Wolsingham
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 Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Wolsingham He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Wolsingham
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Wolsingham He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Wolsingham
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Wolsingham "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Wolsingham
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Wolsingham No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Wolsingham
