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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Branscombe The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Branscombe
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Branscombe Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll 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 Branscombe
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Branscombe When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Branscombe
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Branscombe "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Branscombe
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Branscombe "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Branscombe
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Branscombe Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Branscombe
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Branscombe Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Branscombe
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Branscombe Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Branscombe
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 Branscombe See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Branscombe
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Branscombe "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Branscombe
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Branscombe "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) 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 "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Branscombe
