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I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) 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 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Brough We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Brough
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Brough In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Brough
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Brough Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Brough
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Brough It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Brough
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Brough Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Brough
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Brough "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 Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Brough
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Brough "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Brough
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 If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Brough Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Brough
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Brough I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Brough
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "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 Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Brough "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Brough
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Brough There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Brough
