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One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli "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 Shirebrook then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman Shirebrook Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Shirebrook Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields Shirebrook "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers Shirebrook The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin Shirebrook The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf Shirebrook All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey Shirebrook History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Shirebrook Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis Shirebrook "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb Shirebrook 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 Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Shirebrook Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman "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) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor Shirebrook "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Shirebrook Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Shirebrook Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill Shirebrook The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer Shirebrook 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 "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Shirebrook Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Shirebrook I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy Shirebrook
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