The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Peacehaven The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Peacehaven
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Peacehaven Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Peacehaven
"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) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Peacehaven Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Peacehaven
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Peacehaven NEIGHBOR, n. 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 When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Peacehaven
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Peacehaven Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright 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 Peacehaven
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Peacehaven "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) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Peacehaven
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Peacehaven Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie 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 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 Peacehaven
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Peacehaven "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 The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Peacehaven
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Peacehaven I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Peacehaven
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Peacehaven He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Peacehaven
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Peacehaven Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Peacehaven
