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Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) 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 "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Melbourne Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Melbourne
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Melbourne Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Melbourne
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Melbourne Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Melbourne
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Melbourne Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Melbourne
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Melbourne How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Melbourne
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Melbourne After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Melbourne
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Melbourne "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Melbourne
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Melbourne I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Melbourne
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Melbourne If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Melbourne
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Anyway, 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,
ign Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Melbourne "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Melbourne
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Melbourne Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Melbourne
