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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Arts and Entertainment Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Arts and Entertainment "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Arts and Entertainment
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "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 He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Arts and Entertainment He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
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-- Schopenhauer Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Arts and Entertainment
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Arts and Entertainment You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Arts and Entertainment
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Arts and Entertainment For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Arts and Entertainment
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra 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 Arts and Entertainment If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Arts and Entertainment
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Arts and Entertainment "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Arts and Entertainment
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 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Arts and Entertainment My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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