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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Arts and Entertainment Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
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Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Arts and Entertainment Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Arts and Entertainment
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Arts and Entertainment "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) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Arts and Entertainment
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Arts and Entertainment Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) 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 Arts and Entertainment
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Arts and Entertainment To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Arts and Entertainment
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Arts and Entertainment "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Arts and Entertainment
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Arts and Entertainment "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Arts and Entertainment
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow 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 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Arts and Entertainment A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Arts and Entertainment
