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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Personal Pages When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Personal Pages
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST 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 Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Personal Pages "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Personal Pages The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Personal Pages
Man and wife make one fool. The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Personal Pages "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Personal Pages
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Personal Pages A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Personal Pages
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Personal Pages There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Personal Pages
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Personal Pages "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Personal Pages
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Personal Pages "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Personal Pages
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Personal Pages Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Personal Pages
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Personal Pages
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Personal Pages He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Personal Pages
