The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Windermere Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Windermere
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Windermere If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
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The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Windermere When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Windermere
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Windermere Marriage is a rest period between romances. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Windermere
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Windermere "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Windermere
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain 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 Windermere Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Windermere
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Windermere "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Windermere
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Windermere Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Windermere
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Windermere I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Windermere
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Windermere "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Windermere
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Windermere "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland 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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